Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tektronix!percival!parsely!agora!billsey
From: billsey@agora.UUCP (Bill Seymour)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: PATH: and (pseudo)announcement of RDF:
Message-ID: <1204@agora.UUCP>
Date: 30 Oct 88 18:07:51 GMT
References: <8810261438.AA14294@jade.berkeley.edu:
Organization: Advanced Solutions, Hillsboro, OR
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From article <8810261438.AA14294@jade.berkeley.edu:, by U211344@HNYKUN11.BITNET (Olaf 'Rhialto' Seibert):
: Now a pseudo-announcement...
: 
: I have written a RDF: handler. That is a Raw DFx: interface: it turns
: your floppy (or your hard disk) into a sequential stream of bytes
: (just like Unix :-). You can (with some minor limitations) Zoo to it,
: for example, and have a *real* 880K Zoo archive on a single floppy.
: You can disassemble the boot block directly from the disk, or
: just look at it using TYPE <RDF: OPT H, and so on, and so on.
: It is currently being tested. Hopefully out soon.

	How well would this work on a tape drive, I wonder? No one out there
that I know of has a real tape device out, and this would certainly allow
me some use of my tape drive. The problem I see is that you would have no
support for multiple files on the media. (Or am I wrong there...)

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