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From: "Tarjei T. Jensen" <tarjei@online.no>
Subject: Re: Platform portable support of heir. file systems
Date: 1996/12/21
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Robert Dewar wrote:
> 
> Will your set of primitives cover mainframe IBM systems (certainly
> one of the most common operating systems around). How about some
of
> the other systems used in the information systems world, how about
> real time systems with very limited file systems.

IBM mainframes have disks and directories if my memory serves me
right. The main difference is that the number of levels in the file
hiarchy is one (or was it two). One could simulate more levels, but it might
not be worth the effort.

Greetings,

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