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> Date: Tue, 2 Mar 1993 23:41:07 PST
> Sender: Bill Janssen <janssen@parc.xerox.com>
> From: Bill Janssen <janssen@parc.xerox.com>
> To: www-talk@nxoc01.cern.ch
> Subject: WWW program to fetch document source?
>
> Is there a simple WWW tool which will will take a UDI or URL (and
which
> is officially used these days by WWW?)
URL is the term for something limited to an address. URI
means a URL OR something which looks like it but is a name
in an abstract space. The IETF WG talks about URLs only as
no namespace exists. [[The URI term has had a hard time as
noone accepts the concept of a (name or address) as some people are
so hot on defending the essential difference of names and addresses]]
> and write the source of the
> document to stdout? Something like
>
> wwwFetch file://foo.bar.type/blah/blah/oink.ps >/tmp/a
>
> I notice that ``www -n -source'' still does a bit of formatting,
enough
> to confuse Postscript and GIF files.
Really? A few months ago (Oct 92, version 1.3a I think)
a shortcut was introduced so that the
-source option pipes the source direct (CRLF and all) to stdout.
"Should work"! It was particularly needed (and tested)
for postscript. Before, the source was treated as a plain text file,
and wrapped at the line length.
> Bill
>
Tim