Alex User Commands
Alex is an experimental filesystem that tries to give users
transparent read access to anonymous FTP sites. Alex path-
names are really composed of 3 parts. First is /alex.
Second is a reversed hostname. Last is the path on that
host. For example, /alex/edu/berkeley/pub/virus.patch is a
file at berkeley.edu.
This document and the documents referenced by it describe
some commands that users may fine useful. If you want
information on the server click here.
Alex is a funny NFS server that needs special timeouts options
(FTPs take longer than disk accesses). The mountalex script
handles all of this. It will also make /alex if it needs
to.
This page tells how to install all of the user commands and html pages.
There are a number of user commands for useful to Mosaic users.
They are all collected under this section.
A bunch of aliases that make using Alex faster. These include things
like cdh (cd host) and cdu for going to a URL.
This is a collection of commands for searching and browsing Alex.
This is a another bunch of Alex user commands.
FILES
All of the user related man pages and commands can be found
under /alex/edu/cmu/cs/sp/alex/user.
DEMO
To demo Alex get a copy of
alex.demo.mount and run it as
root. This will do an NFS mount of the demo server.
SEE ALSO
cdu, lnu, mountalex, alexaliases, archia,
alexupdate, readmes, cmuftp, alexurl, url2alex, alex2url, alex2html, alexinalex
BUGS
To report bugs please send mail to vac@cs.cmu.edu.
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