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[Phil Hunt]
> For example, there could be a translator for ftp linked to an /ftp
> directory, so one could say at the prompt:
> 
>    $ cd /ftp/ftp.demon.co.uk/pub
> 
> (which goes into the /pub directory on ftp://ftp.demon.co.uk/)
> 
>    $ ls
> 
> (which lists all the files in that directory, in nomal Unix format)
> 
>    $ cp q* ~/download
> 
> (which copies all files whocse names start with q into ~/download. The
> way this works is that cp thinks it is copying files as normal, but
> the ftp-translator translates the request to read files into ftp get
> requests (binary mode).)

This service is called Alex, and is a caching FTP->NFS converter.

Have a look at <URL:ftp://alex.sp.cs.cmu.edu/src/alex.tar.Z>.  I was
unable to connect to the ftp server, but this is the last address I
have for the source of Alex.  It is dated 19950717. :-)
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