mwm@eris.BERKELEY.EDU (Mike (My watch has windows) Meyer) (06/17/87)
This hasn't come up in a while, so let's go again. But before I get started,
let me suggest to Ed Puckett that he post his P: device. Taps sound
interesting, and I'd like to play with them without having to do them
myself. Suggestions for others will be dropped at will.
In article <8706120738.AA09510@ingres.Berkeley.EDU> hatcher@INGRES.BERKELEY.EDU (Doug Merritt) writes:
<The Amiga currently has *almost* consistent universal name space,
<as illustrated by the fact that Matt can write a pipe: device in
<the first place, and any software can write to it as if it were
<a regular file.
Uh, almost consistent? Let's see, I've got a slew of assigned names,
and the following devices: PIPE, VDK, PAR, SER, RAW, CON, DF0, DF1,
PRT, and RAM. Gee, it's an even split as to how many support Examine
and ExNext. Most of them have file names associated with them, and I
can think of logical things for most of them to do with those packets.
That's not almost consistent; that's about as far as you can get from
consistency. Hey, CATS - how about putting that in for 1.3?
<Oh, a final note: it's nice to have a root in which to look at a name
<space. That's why devices on Unix live in the file system in /dev
<-- it's not a peculiarity, it's a very basic feature of a uniform
<name space. It would be very nice if we could do "dir ::" or something
<and discover a list of all devices.
Hmm. You seem to be suffering some confusion, but it could be me. I'll
take it to e-mail, but leave one request for Matt:
Matt, the Unix-like shells on VMS take /dev/dir/path/to/a/file and
turn it into dev:[dir.path.to.a]file. Have you considered making your
shell do that kind of thing while it was globbing?
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Before you end up walking? mwm@ucbjade.BITNETqix@ihlpa.ATT.COM (Puckett) (06/18/87)
In article <3976@jade.BERKELEY.EDU>, mwm@eris.UUCP writes: > let me suggest to Ed Puckett that he post his P: device. Taps sound P: was posted to comp.sources.amiga and comp.binaries.amiga yesterday. Thanks for all the responses!!! -Ed Puckett.