Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!harvard!husc6!panda!genrad!decvax!bellcore!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!houxm!mtuxo!mtune!mtunh!akguc!codas!peora!ucf-cs!notes From: notes@ucf-cs.UUCP Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga Subject: Re: Re: AmigaDos w/o Directory in AmigaD Message-ID: <2419@ucf-cs.UUCP> Date: Tue, 13-May-86 07:20:59 EDT Article-I.D.: ucf-cs.2419 Posted: Tue May 13 07:20:59 1986 Date-Received: Fri, 16-May-86 02:47:09 EDT Sender: notes@ucf-cs.UUCP Organization: Univ. of Central Florida, Orlando Lines: 32 Nf-ID: #R:cbmvax:-21900:ucf-cs:90000002:000:1498 Nf-From: ucf-cs!ennis May 11 09:20:00 1986 /***** ucf-cs:net.micro.amiga / cbmvax!randy / 8:23 am May 9, 1986*/ Subject: Re: AmigaDos w/o Directory in AmigaDos In article <327@ethz.UUCP> claudio@ethz.UUCP (Claudio Nieder) writes: >I think it is funny (?) that this sort of (non-)directory is implemented >on a machine like the Amiga where most program will implement an OPEN >command which shows up the directory so that you can select which file >you need. On a UNIX or MSDOS computer you are free to type in the >filename if you already know it, and you don't have to wait for the >directory. On Window/Mouse-oriented programs on the Amiga you have to >wait until the OPEN command has collected all filenames. Therefor I >think the actual implementation of the file system (directory) is >unapropriate for the Amiga. > > claudio The implementation of the OPEN operation in various programs does not require that all files in a directory be listed before selecting a file. This feature is a result of how the programmer has written the code. It would be just as easy for the program to have a menu option that lets you either OPEN (with a resultant list of all files) or OPEN AS which then requests the user for a filename. -- + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + Randy Weiner -- Commodore Business Machines <> uucp: {ihnp4|seismo|caip}!cbmvax!randy arpa: cbmvax!randy@seismo.css.GOV (or) randy@cbmvax.UUCP@{seismo | harvard} TEL: 215-431-9180 /* ---------- */