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prospero

 

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  From  The  Free  On-line  Dictionary  of  Computing  (13  Mar  01)  [foldoc]: 
 
  Prospero 
 
  A  tool  for  organising  {Internet}  resources.  Prospero  allows 
  each  user  to  organise  the  contents  of  remote  file  servers  into 
  his  own  virtual  file  system  with  his  own  hierarchical  name 
  space  consisting  of  links  to  remote  objects.  Remote  indexing 
  services  are  made  available  by  treating  the  results  as  a 
  virtual  directory.  A  "union  link"  allows  the  contents  of  the 
  link's  target  directory  to  appear  as  part  of  the  directory 
  containing  the  link.  Arbitrary  filters  can  be  associated  with 
  links  to  modify  the  representation  of  the  target  directory  as 
  desired.  Prospero  directories  can  be  shared  between  users. 
  The  Prospero  protocol  is  used  for  communication  between 
  clients  and  servers  in  the  archie  system. 
 
  A  prototype  of  Prospero  has  been  available  since  December 
  1990.  It  interfaces  with  Sun  {NFS},  the  {Andrew  File  System} 
  and  {FTP}  (with  local  caching)  and  {Archie}.  Support  for 
  {World-Wide  Web}  and  {WAIS}  is  planned  (1992). 
 
  E-mail:  . 
  {(ftp://prospero.isi.edu/pub/prospero)}.