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From: qix@mit-vax.LCS.MIT.EDU (Ed Puckett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech,comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: devices and directories
Message-ID: <3882@mit-vax.LCS.MIT.EDU>
Date: 2 Apr 88 20:51:18 GMT
References: <842@goedel.quintus.UUCP>
Organization: MIT LCS, Cambridge, MA
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In article <842@goedel.quintus.UUCP>, pds@quintus.UUCP (Peter Schachte) writes:
> [still xposting till I hear that .tech is official]
> 
> I'm trying to implement a directory-structured device.  Is this
> possible?  I want to create a device PATH: such that someone could say
> 
> 	1> dir PATH:
> or	1> dir PATH:fred
> 

My pipe-handler implements a one-level directory mechanism by responding
to the proper packets and by returning Locks when requested.  It and its
source code are available on the Software Distillery BBS and also
on a Fred Fish Disk (approx #84 -- I can't remember which one exactly).

Extending the scheme to handle subdirectories as well would not be too much
harder, but would require additional bookkeeping.

Viva Amiga!  What other PC allows such flexibility?!

				-Ed Puckett.