Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde!uunet!aplcen!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!texbell!nuchat!sugar!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: ansi c and directories Message-ID: <7201@ficc.uu.net> Date: 5 Dec 89 14:12:52 GMT References: <225800244@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> <3332@cbnewsd.ATT.COM> <7127@ficc.uu.net> <11707@smoke.BRL.MIL> <7156@ficc.uu.net> <1292@uwm.edu> <7193@ficc.uu.net> <1289@quintus.UUCP> Reply-To: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 22 In article <1289@quintus.UUCP> jbeard@quintus.UUCP () writes: > >> I'm sure the concept of a file is more inherit to operating > >> systems than is the concept of a directory. > >In any system for which files have names, there is at least one directory. > Sorry Peter, IBM MVS and DOS/VSE both have file names without resorting to > a directory file structure. They have a directory. It may be flat, but it's a directory. A directory is just a thing you can ask for a list of names. Sometimes it's called a catalog, or a table of contents, or a volume, or whatever. It's still a directory. > We have a name clash on 'DIRECTORY'. I guess. What do you call the thing you get when you type "dir" in CP/M? -- `-_-' Peter da Silva. +1 713 274 5180. . 'U` Also or . "If you want PL/I, you know where to find it." -- Dennis