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From: riley@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Daniel S. Riley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Determining disk devices
Message-ID: <9523@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Date: 10 Jan 90 21:26:52 GMT
References: <331@sed170.HAC.COM> <1990Jan5.132842.11132@haven.umd.edu> <332@sed170.HAC.COM> <608@xdos.UUCP>
Reply-To: riley@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Daniel S. Riley)
Organization: Cornell Theory Center, Cornell University, Ithaca NY
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In article <608@xdos.UUCP> doug@xdos.UUCP (Doug Merritt) writes:
>When people first started writing PD pipe devices, one of the first
>ones *did* support directories. Despite much enthusiastic praise from 
>myself and others, this feature was not adopted in the PIPE: that was
>picked up by Commodore.

Ok, here's how I have it in my personal memory.  Matt Dillon wrote the
pipe: that was eventually shipped by Commodore.  At about the same
time, Ed Puckett wrote a pipe: that did support directories, which
we all thought was a neat feature.  Including Matt, who included
full support for directories in his next rev, called dpipe:.  I
believe dpipe: came out well after Commodore had been shipping
pipe: for awhile, and dpipe: had other incompatibilities with
pipe: that broke some programs, hence the name change.  I also
seem to remember Ed's pipe: being quite a bit larger than Matt's,
which may explain why Commodore shipped Matt's (or maybe they just
knew Matt better).

I agree with Doug that it would have been nice if Commodore had shipped 
a pipe: with directory support, but I'm not so sure that Matt deserves 
even a mini-flame for his part.  Of course, by now this all ancient
history...

-Dan Riley (riley@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu, cornell!batcomputer!riley)
-Wilson Lab, Cornell University