Alex is a filesystem that lets users access files in FTP sites around the world just like they access local files. It is not yet ready for general distribution but is expected to be soon. If you are working on some sort of information system and would like access to a current version let me know. Vincent Cate vac@cs.cmu.edu usenix.wofs92.ps - paper on Alex to be published in Usenix Workshop on File Systems May of 1992. intro.ps - same as above paper but may be updated nsf.poster.ps - 6 slides used for a poster session Keywords: Alexandria, Alex, technical papers, techreport Master copy: /alex/edu/cmu/cs/sp/alex/doc/README