Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!ukc!mucs!p4.cs.man.ac.uk!gilbertd From: gilbertd@p4.cs.man.ac.uk (Dave Gilbert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn Subject: Re: Pseudo Filing Systems via *set Message-ID: Date: 3 May 91 08:29:35 GMT References: <1991May1.184943.1835@ugle.unit.no> <6815@acorn.co.uk> Sender: news@cs.man.ac.uk Distribution: comp Lines: 27 Owen says that if you do cat foo: where you have a number of things set up under foo$path it will look at foo$dir - why shouldnt it do something like produce a pseudo root directory e.g. set foo$path adfs::hard.$.apps, adfs::hard.$.dev and then doing cat foo: should give Directory $ containing two subdirectorys apps and dev. So I would then be able to say foo::$.dev.file This would allow you to easily emulate a UNIX system so that you could effectivly mount a number of drives, RAMFS etc under 1 directory structure. e.g. set foo$path adfs::hard.$, adfs::work.$ etc. I cant see this being that difficult to implement - please Acorn.... Dave -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Dave Gilbert - gilbertd@p4.cs.man.ac.uk - The MTBF of a piece of equipment - - G7FHJ@GB7NWP - is inversly proportional to its - ------------------------------------------- importance -