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From: djl@fisher.UUCP (Dan Levin  N6BZA )
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: Extending the UNIX pathname syntax
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Date: Sat, 27-Apr-85 16:11:31 EDT
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> 	Jack Jansen, {decvax|philabs|seismo}!mcvax!jack
> Has anyone implemented something like this already? Anyone feels
> like doing so? Any comments?

My XENIX 3.0 machine (Intel 310/286) uses this sort of thing to access
MS-DOS floppies.  You specify /dev/floppy:msdos_pathname to a group
of MS-DOS related commands.   Works rather well.

Also, V8 uses this exact method to do networking. /dev/machine_name/pathname
gets you a file on another machine transparently.
-- 
			***dan

{allegra,astrovax,princeton,twg}!fisher!djl
The misplaced (You call *that* a ski slope??) Californian