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From: doug@xdos.UUCP (Doug Merritt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Determining disk devices
Message-ID: <609@xdos.UUCP>
Date: 11 Jan 90 20:18:33 GMT
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Reply-To: doug@xdos.UUCP (Doug Merritt)
Organization: Hunter Systems, Mountain View CA (Silicon Valley)
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In article <9523@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> riley@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Daniel S. Riley) writes:
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>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:.

Apparently my recollection was faulty, thanks for clearing that up.
I withdraw my "miniflame".

I guess I should have just said: "regardless of the reasons, it sure
is annoying and disappointing that the standard pipe device doesn't
support directories, and I agree it'd be nice if it were upgraded."
	Doug
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