Re: opening and saving files remotely

["Jens Müller" <jens@unfaehig.de>]

Rory O'Connor <midget@elaris.com> writes:

> Homesite has a nifty feature called FTP/RDS that allows me to open, edit 
> 
> and save files on remote servers as if they were local.  I'm wondering 
> if linux would have a similar feature where I could open and edit files, 
> 
> say, in gnotepad (or other GTK text editor) and save them remotely in 
> the same fashion?

Linux does not have such a feature.

But you could write an ftpfs driver and then mount an ftp directory
into the local filesystem.

KDE has a generic method of specifying file access methods. When you
have an ftp directory in Konqueror, you can open (and save) a text
file there with KEdit, e.g.