Oscar van Vlijmen wrote:
As soon as they encounter a xxx.htm or xxx.html file on a FTP-served site, they display the contents in a HTML-window.
But being able to directly download a large FTP file doesn't help a new user understand where to start to find an explanation/overview of the contents of ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/, but just placing WWW.htm and an index.htm in /pub would do the trick. The index would be "This is ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/ page and it contains the following files " (with one sentence or so per file with a remark about real details can be found inside some of them). Or just bullet list in WWW of _all_ file in /pub would probably solve the problem. Some description all of /pub would be very useful. The WWW.htm could be left in /pub and referenced from this page.
It is however a very good idea to maintain an up to date mirror of this page, for instance at twinsun.com.
That is probably true. -Paul -- Myriad Genetics: http://www.myriad.com/ Java FAQ: http://www.afu.com/javafaq.html (Section 9, Computer Dating)