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From: mar@lanl.gov (Mark Roschke)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.cray
Subject: Re: Making "common file system" more unix-like?
Message-ID: <14080@lanl.gov>
Date: 10 Oct 89 16:00:40 GMT
References: <698@orange19.qtp.ufl.edu>
Reply-To: mar@lanl.gov (Mark Roschke)
Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory, NM
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In article <698@orange19.qtp.ufl.edu> bernhold@qtp.ufl.edu (David E. Bernholdt) writes:
>
>At the installations I'm familiar with, the "common file system" (CFS,
>MASS, etc.: used for offline mass storage) is typically very
>un-unix-like in its command structure, diagnostic output, etc.
>
>I am wondering if anyone has made any attempt to make it more
>unix-like, either via scripts or even a new interface?
>
	A project is underway here at Los Alamos to provide two unix-like
	interfaces to the common file system.  The first interface is
	command line oriented, and the second is screen oriented (a browser).

Mark Roschke			        mar@lanl.gov
Computing and Communications Division
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545            (505)667-7073