From: Jean-Pierre Rosen <rosen@adalog.fr>
Subject: Re: Ada.Directories problems, a summary
Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2009 11:01:32 +0100
Date: 2009-01-05T11:01:32+01:00 [thread overview]
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In-Reply-To: <bb4d6473-c4b7-4398-86a7-4a45b80324c1@v39g2000pro.googlegroups.com>
Ivan Levashew a �crit :
> I don't care about UNIX convention. There are abstraction like
> "sequence of octets", "ability to establish connection with",
> etc., and I'd like to deal with these abstractions and not with
> what particular cases OS designers gave me instead.
>
Believing that a file is a "sequence of octets" is a serious DOS/Unix
bias. In serious operating systems (i.e. VMS), a file is a higher level,
structured entity.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-05 10:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-01 11:16 Ada.Directories problems, a summary Dmitry A. Kazakov
2009-01-01 13:47 ` Ivan Levashew
2009-01-01 14:15 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2009-01-02 14:22 ` Ivan Levashew
2009-01-02 14:49 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2009-01-02 22:33 ` Colin Paul Gloster
2009-01-03 9:08 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2009-01-05 10:01 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen [this message]
2009-01-02 22:57 ` Randy Brukardt
2009-01-03 9:39 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2009-01-06 1:23 ` Randy Brukardt
2009-01-06 1:23 ` Randy Brukardt
2009-01-06 10:41 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2009-01-01 13:56 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2009-01-01 14:05 ` Colin Paul Gloster
2009-01-01 14:29 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2009-01-01 20:41 ` anon
2009-01-02 11:22 ` Colin Paul Gloster
2009-01-02 10:22 ` Georg Bauhaus
2009-01-02 11:09 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
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