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Uniform Resource Locator. It is a term essential to the use of the
World-Wide Web that describes an address for each file on the
Internet. For example, this is a URL:
It describes the protocol that should be used to access the
information (http - the hypertext transfer protocol), the address of
the WWW server (www.interaccess.com), the path to the file
(/newsletter/july95/), and the file itself (index.html).
Jim Curran
US Robotics
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Subject: URL
Author: Nora Merhar <MERHAR -at- ALENA -dot- BITNET> at Internet
Date: 7/26/95 4:07 PM
Hey y'all,
My boss asked me what URL means, and I had to say I didn't know. Could anyone
tell me?
Nora
merhar -at- edsvcs -dot- switch -dot- rockwell -dot- com
