Re: Operations on Files

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From: David Adrien Tanguay
Date: Sun, 06 Sep 1992 23:08

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robertl@county.lmt.mn.org (ROBERT LAUMEYER) writes:
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>	The ANSI C standard seems to have a rather odd mix of file 
>operations.  Why didn't they add (over K&R) some other useful file 
>operations such as fileexist, getfirst, getnext, etc?  It seems that 
>these could not be much more dependent on the underlying file system than 
>rename or remove.

These routines assume a directory structure, i.e., that there is such a
concept as sub-structure. Other forms of file organization are reasonable.
For example, the files could be organised as a relational database, where you
don't really navigate from one node to another. Or, a file could be a point
in n-space. Stuff like this pops up in videotext systems.
-- 
David Tanguay       dat@Thinkage.on.ca  dat@Thinkage.com  uunet!thinkage!dat
Thinkage, Ltd.           Kitchener, Ontario, Canada          [43.40N 80.47W]

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Subject: Re: Operations on Files
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