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Date:	Sun, 12 Jul 1998 19:04:14 PST8PDT
From:	"Rollin White" <rollin@scoug.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-programming@scoug.com
To:	< "scoug-programming@scoug.com" > scoug-programming@scoug.com >
Subject:	SCOUG-Programming: FTP Project

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Sorry it's been so long since I've posted anything. Since there were so many good ideas at our last
meeting, I've had a hard time getting my arms around the ideas to bring them together.

Here is what I think represents a balance between elegance, functionality, ease of implementation,
flexibility, etc.

As a function of configuration (still to be completely defined), the user will list three elements for
each directory: Access (read/write/upload/delete), local file system name (i.e. c:\ftp), user file system
name (i.e. /ftp).

When a user changes directories, it can be compared to the list of the third attribute. When the user
sends or recieves a file, a similar process can be applied.

The only significant open issue in my mind is what does the user's root directory look like. I think
the answer is that it is a composite of the base directories of all of the directories listed for the user.
An example:

Read C:\ftp /ftp
Write c:\ftp\upload /ftp/upload
Write c:\John /john
Submit C:\Submit /ftp/submit
Read c:\pub /pub

So if the user did a DIR / he would see:

/ftp
/john
/pub

Comments? Thoughts? Objections?

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