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Article #8402Re: devices and directories
From: Ed Puckett
Date: Sat, 02 Apr 1988 20:51
Date: Sat, 02 Apr 1988 20:51
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In article <842@goedel.quintus.UUCP>, pds@quintus.UUCP (Peter Schachte) writes: > [still xposting till I hear that .tech is official] > > I'm trying to implement a directory-structured device. Is this > possible? I want to create a device PATH: such that someone could say > > 1> dir PATH: > or 1> dir PATH:fred > My pipe-handler implements a one-level directory mechanism by responding to the proper packets and by returning Locks when requested. It and its source code are available on the Software Distillery BBS and also on a Fred Fish Disk (approx #84 -- I can't remember which one exactly). Extending the scheme to handle subdirectories as well would not be too much harder, but would require additional bookkeeping. Viva Amiga! What other PC allows such flexibility?! -Ed Puckett.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!mit-vax!qix From: qix@mit-vax.LCS.MIT.EDU (Ed Puckett) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech,comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: devices and directories Message-ID: <3882@mit-vax.LCS.MIT.EDU> Date: 2 Apr 88 20:51:18 GMT References: <842@goedel.quintus.UUCP> Organization: MIT LCS, Cambridge, MA Lines: 21