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Article #13423Re: Determining disk devices
From: Doug Merritt
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 1990 20:18
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 1990 20:18
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In article <9523@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> riley@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Daniel S. Riley) writes:
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>Ok, here's how I have it in my personal memory. Matt Dillon wrote the
>pipe: that was eventually shipped by Commodore. At about the same
>time, Ed Puckett wrote a pipe: that did support directories, which
>we all thought was a neat feature. Including Matt, who included
>full support for directories in his next rev, called dpipe:.
Apparently my recollection was faulty, thanks for clearing that up.
I withdraw my "miniflame".
I guess I should have just said: "regardless of the reasons, it sure
is annoying and disappointing that the standard pipe device doesn't
support directories, and I agree it'd be nice if it were upgraded."
Doug
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!apple!motcsd!xdos!doug From: doug@xdos.UUCP (Doug Merritt) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: Determining disk devices Message-ID: <609@xdos.UUCP> Date: 11 Jan 90 20:18:33 GMT References: <331@sed170.HAC.COM> <1990Jan5.132842.11132@haven.umd.edu> <332@sed170.HAC.COM> <608@xdos.UUCP> <9523@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> Reply-To: doug@xdos.UUCP (Doug Merritt) Organization: Hunter Systems, Mountain View CA (Silicon Valley) Lines: 18