Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ncar!unmvax!bbx!bbxsda!scott From: scott@bbxsda.UUCP (Scott Amspoker) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: filenames and the kernel Message-ID: <590@bbxsda.UUCP> Date: 1 Feb 90 16:00:46 GMT References: <17829@rpp386.cactus.org> <-5G1KF6xds13@ficc.uu.net> Reply-To: scott@bbxsda.UUCP (Scott Amspoker) Distribution: usa Organization: Basis International, Albuquerque, NM Lines: 19 In article <-5G1KF6xds13@ficc.uu.net> peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes: >In article <17829@rpp386.cactus.org> jfh@rpp386.cactus.org (John F. Haugh II) writes: >> Early MS-DOS and CP/M didn't include directories. Nor do many old versions >> of TRS-DOS. > >But they did include the concept of a "current directory", the current drive, >which was inherited by programs running in the TPA. The thrust of the original >poster's argument seemed to be that the "current directory" or "default >directory" or "current volume" was a mistake. About the time I stopped using CP/M (years ago) it started supporting a thing call "user number" which, I believe, gave some of the functionality of multiple directories on a single disk. -- Scott Amspoker Basis International, Albuquerque, NM (505) 345-5232 unmvax.cs.unm.edu!bbx!bbxsda!scott