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Subject: Re: links - forget UNIX; what about AMIGA?
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Date: 12 Sep 89 18:11:13 GMT
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I think the worries about the AREXX: device are unfounded.
As I understand the original post, the AREXX: device would be
a mounted non-file-system device which would parse the "filename"
as a command to be sent to the ARexx resident process.
In terms of the symbolic links "parsing" the link name, it would
take no more work for AmigaDOS to parse "AREXX:doit.rexx args" than
to parse "DF0:doit.rexx args". As far as security goes, either
don't mount AREXX: if you are unsure of what you are looking at,
lock your hard drive while fiddling around, or (best) issue
an RXC command to shut down ARexx while fiddling around.
(Obviously best as it is easily reversed without rebooting.)
I think the idea of an AREXX: device is great, and very much along
the "Amiga way to do things".  -- Darren