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From: thsa@rhi.hi.is (Thorvaldur S Arnarson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: Re: Pseudo Filing Systems via *set
Keywords: Filing systems
Message-ID: <3089@krafla.rhi.hi.is>
Date: 1 May 91 02:05:26 GMT
References: <vanaards.672489794@p4.cs.man.ac.uk>
Reply-To: thsa@rhi.hi.is (Thorvaldur S Arnarson)
Organization: University of Iceland (RHI)
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In article <vanaards.672489794@p4.cs.man.ac.uk> vanaards@p4.cs.man.ac.uk (Steven van Aardt) writes:
|
|  In the user guide it states that a pseudo filing system can be 
|created using the ':' . Ie you could do *. system:  Well I've tried this
|and it doesn't work. 


The answer is quite simple.  A path can consist of a list of directories
like:
   *set foo$path adfs::4.$.,scsi::5.$.
so what would you want the OS to do about a command like:
   *cat foo:
or even worse:
   *rename foo:text foo:bar
   *save foo:bar 8000+100

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