a) How to tell whether a specified node is the "local" node? The /NET test is
not portable, it doesn't work on our Unix system here (we use /nfs here). It
works even less well on VAX clusters.
b) Even if I could tell that the file is on the local node, things still would
not work since /pub is NOT the root of the anonymous FTP directory. I.e.
file://localhost/test.html is NOT the same as local:/pub/test.html. Again this
applies even more to non-unix systems.
Both of these problems tempt me to keep local:, or some equivalent. Comments?
Tony