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From: pds@quintus.UUCP (Peter Schachte)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech,comp.sys.amiga
Subject: devices and directories
Message-ID: <842@goedel.quintus.UUCP>
Date: 1 Apr 88 21:57:21 GMT
Organization: Quintus Computer Systems, Mountain View, CA
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[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

I know how to implement my own Examine() and ExNext() for this device,
in principle at least, but I don't know how to set up a device to handle
this.  I have Matt's PIPE:  device code, but it doesn't seem to be
directory-structured.  (I never tried it:  what happens if I type "dir
PIPE:" ?)  Neither do any of the Amiga-supplied devices.  Is there such a
thing as a directory-structured device?  If so, how do I implement one?

Thanks in advance for any help.
-- 
-Peter Schachte
pds@quintus.uucp
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