Alex FTP Filesystem

Alex is a filesystem that lets users access files in FTP sites around the world just like they access local files. Alex pathnames are 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.
  • Post on netnews about Alex
  • Alex README file
  • Alex NIR entry
  • Usenix paper on Alex intro.ps
  • Source code README
  • Getting Alex or trying it out

  • Script to get and install Alex - getalex
  • Mosaic/WWW Alex demo starting at /alex
  • Mosaic/WWW Alex demo starting at links
  • Two line script to demo mount Alex
  • User Commands

  • Man pages for Alex user commands
  • Alex support for URLs
  • alex2html of links tree
  • Other internet related systems

  • internet-tools.html
  • directory of alex links to other systems
  • NIR status report
  • Index of /the-net
  • Vincent Cate