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Re: CVS commit: src/bin/dd



David Holland <dholland-sourcechanges%NetBSD.org@localhost> writes:

> Adding weird special case remote access hacks to dd (of all random
> tools) is also poor design. Why not for the next round add support for
>
>    dd ifurl=http://www.netbsd.org/index.html of=mycopy
>
> or
>
>    dd ifurl=http://www.netbsd.org/ recurse=true of=mytree/
>
> After all, all you have to do to implement this is open a pipe to ftp
> or wget.

Actually, neat idea (at least the first one)...

-- 
                                Jim Wise
                                jwise%draga.com@localhost

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