From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,3689d3c938c589e5 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-01-23 09:27:25 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.mathworks.com!wn3feed!worldnet.att.net!204.127.198.203!attbi_feed3!attbi.com!rwcrnsc52.ops.asp.att.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3C4EF2AA.31A78C84@attbi.com> From: Mark Biggar X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en]C-{C-UDP; EBM-SONY1} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Directory listings and path names References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.234.195.83 X-Complaints-To: abuse@attbi.com X-Trace: rwcrnsc52.ops.asp.att.net 1011806844 12.234.195.83 (Wed, 23 Jan 2002 17:27:24 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 17:27:24 GMT Organization: AT&T Broadband Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 17:27:24 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:19246 Date: 2002-01-23T17:27:24+00:00 List-Id: Marin David Condic wrote: > On yet another hand, I do agree that it would be a good idea for Ada to > provide a semi-standard interface to an OS file system. It would necessarily > be reduced to the least common denominator, but with child packages, it > would be possible to isolate interfaces for the most common OS's where there > may be non-portable features in question. Could this be part of the ARM? A > better place to start would be with an informal consensus & see if it might > eventually be something that could migrate to a more formal standard. There is already an amendment AI for this. See AI95-00248-01 on http://www.ada-auth.org/AI-SUMMARY.HTML -- Mark Biggar mark.a.biggar@attbi.com