Translators in Action

Connecting to ftp.debian.org

 neal@desdemona:~ (0)$ id
 uid=1000(neal) gid=1000(neal) 

 neal@desdemona:~ (0)$ settrans -ac ftp.debian.org /hurd/ftpfs \ 
 > ftp.debian.org/

 neal@desdemona:~ (0)$ ls ftp.debian.org
 debian          lost+found      ls-lR.gz        serverfull.msg
 incoming        ls-lR           pub             welcome.msg

 neal@desdemona:~ (0)$ head -n 2 ftp.debian.org/debian/README
 See http://www.debian.org/ for information about Debian GNU/Linux.
 Three Debian releases are available on the main site:
 neal@desdemona:~ (0)$ settrans -g ftp.debian.org

 neal@desdemona:~ (0)$ ls ftp.debian.org
 ftp.debian.org

 neal@desdemona:~ (0)$ rm ftp.debian.org