Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!uupsi!sunic!isgate!krafla!thsa From: thsa@rhi.hi.is (Thorvaldur S Arnarson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn Subject: Re: Pseudo Filing Systems via *set Keywords: Filing systems Message-ID: <3106@krafla.rhi.hi.is> Date: 4 May 91 15:11:11 GMT References: <3089@krafla.rhi.hi.is> <1991May1.184943.1835@ugle.unit.no> Reply-To: thsa@rhi.hi.is (Thorvaldur S Arnarson) Organization: University of Iceland (RHI) Lines: 24 In article <1991May1.184943.1835@ugle.unit.no> dhmyrdal@solan.unit.no (Dag H}kon Myrdal) writes: [My comments deleted...] |Simple! I want it to do what I tell it to as long as it's not ambigous... |After all, most commands can use '*' and '#' as wildcards, so why shouldn't |pseudo filing systems work the same way? |After looking at your examples, I can see two possible solutions: | |1: Do the same thing as is done for wildcards: | search the path as given, using the *FIRST* occurence found that satisfy | the command. | If the command is sensible using several arguments, then DO SO! ^^^^^^ This opens up the very lively discussion of globing. Why shouldn't the cli do globing a la unix shells. Comments anyone? And while I'm at it. Acorn! When can we expect to see a filingsystem thet can handle filenames of the "couple of miles long" variety. I'm not talking about NFS but something slightly more standalone. The abillity to handle many files with the same name but different type would also be usefull. -- thsa@rhi.hi.is (Thorvaldur S. Arnarson) Microscopic .sig rules! :-) *<-<