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From: peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter DaSilva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: MCC pipes
Message-ID: <187@sugar.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 16-Jun-87 08:51:47 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jun 16 08:51:47 1987
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Organization: Sugar Land UNIX - Houston, TX
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Summary: List devices? Just say Assign!

> space. That's why devices on Unix live in the file system in /dev
> -- it's not a peculiarity, it's a very basic feature of a uniform
> name space. It would be very nice if we could do "dir ::" or something
> and discover a list of all devices.

You can do an assign with no args and get the list. From a program, however,
it's a bit more complex. Maybe when I finish my console window device I can
add a device device. In the meantime, use the code in my STDFILE package
(to be posted soon). I have come to prefer the Amiga device naming convention
to the UNIX one... if only it used the UNIX path naming conventions with
them.