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From: jimomura@lsuc.UUCP (Jim Omura)
Newsgroups: net.os
Subject: Re: Allocating filespace
Message-ID: <961@lsuc.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 6-Dec-85 00:56:34 EST
Article-I.D.: lsuc.961
Posted: Fri Dec  6 00:56:34 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 6-Dec-85 01:43:04 EST
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Reply-To: jimomura@lsuc.UUCP (Jim Omura)
Organization: Barrister & Solicitor, Toronto
Lines: 33
Keywords: inodes, fat
Summary: OS-9 is much like Unix


     OS-9 is much like Unix in that it's hierchical (that looks wrong to me
is it?), but we don't have much in the way of the conventions for root
directory names.  On a floppy system the convention is to have a 'SYS'
directory to hold the 'password', 'errmsg' and 'motd' files.  Utilities
go in 'CMDS'.  Both 'CMDS' and 'SYS' are contained files (not root dir's)
on '/d0'.  Floppies are generally named '/d0', '/d1', '/d2', etc.  I
think most hard disk users name their root directories '/h0', '/h1',
etc., although I've heard that some name theirs '/d0', etc. because
they are used to that name and it happens to fall easily under a good
keyboard combination (ergonometric nomenclature?).  There's no reason why
we couldn't call them '/usr', '/u', '/etc', etc., but generally it isn't
done.

     One nice thing is that OS-9 has long has a standard disk format.
When the Color Computer OS-9 came out, it didn't conform to the standard
however, because Tandy had already established their format before they
decided to use OS-9.  As a result of this, many peoply have taken to
supporting 2 formats.  I support 3 formats.  My Color Computer, with
SDisk (a 2nd source descriptor/driver kit) and pcxfer give me OS-9
standard format, Color Computer OS-9, and IBM-PC--Oh yes, and Color
Computer BASIC too.  Funny, I forgot all about that one--4 formats.
If you'd like to see it, I could write a bit about exactly what the
format looks like on the disk.

                                      Cheers! -- Jim O.

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James Omura, Barrister & Solicitor, Toronto
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