Prospero

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From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [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)}.