Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!sundc!pitstop!sun!quintus!ok
From: ok@quintus.UUCP (Richard A. O'Keefe)
Newsgroups: comp.os.misc
Subject: Re: OS features
Message-ID: <477@cresswell.quintus.UUCP>
Date: 18 Dec 87 00:10:30 GMT
References: <561@amethyst.ma.arizona.edu> <3228@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> <21545@rebel.UUCP>
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Organization: Quintus Computer Systems, Mountain View, CA
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Summary: extents: old & common

Concerning multiple-extent (dynamically allocated) contiguous files:

(1) The B6700 MCP provided multiple-extent files; very easy to use.
    Oodles of things you could say, very little you had to.
(2) Doesn't VMS provide a feature like this?
(3) Most versions of UNIX don't provide such a feature,
    but read appendix K of the POSIX book.  (Anyone know what is
    happening about this?)