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From: dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: File naming conventions.
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Date: Thu, 1-Oct-87 15:59:35 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct  1 15:59:35 1987
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	The parent directory is '/', the device base (root) is ':', the
current directory is "" (NULL).   Let's take a look at this.

	The only thing I don't like about the format is the "" for the
current directory.... one should not use 'special' non-ascii cases for
file/directory naming.  The only thing I find missing is that there is
no 'super-root' which contains all the devices.  However, I *like* to
use '/' to mean the parent directory (never did like ..).  And like it 
or not C-A (Rightly) is not about to completely throw away the current
naming conventions.

	So why don't we extend the format as follows:

	'.' means current directory as well as ''

	have a super-device called ROOT: which simulates a directory
	containing ALL the devices in the system (including ROOT:) AND
	all the ASSIGN names.  For instance, there would be an entry
	in ROOT: named 'DF0:'.  The parent directory of any device BASE
	would be ROOT:

					-Matt