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=-0.4 required=5.0 tests=AC_FROM_MANY_DOTS,BAYES_00 autolearn=no 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 11:20:28 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!colt.net!newspeer.clara.net!news.clara.net!psiuk-p2!psiuk-p3!uknet!psiuk-n!news.pace.co.uk!nh.pace.co.uk!not-for-mail From: "Marin David Condic" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Directory listings and path names Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 13:24:01 -0500 Organization: Posted on a server owned by Pace Micro Technology plc Message-ID: References: <3C4EF2AA.31A78C84@attbi.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: dhcp-200-133.miami.pace.co.uk X-Trace: nh.pace.co.uk 1011810243 27515 136.170.200.133 (23 Jan 2002 18:24:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@news.cam.pace.co.uk NNTP-Posting-Date: 23 Jan 2002 18:24:03 GMT X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:19252 Date: 2002-01-23T18:24:03+00:00 List-Id: It looks interesting - although my inspection of it was rather cursory. It seems to center on Windows/Unix which, of course, covers a lot of turf. I'm wondering how well it would fit with more niche-type OS's and/or possible future developments in the field. (Would it fit well with MacOS, for example - or manipulating URLs/URIs?) While a positive thing, it may need some broadening of scope. You get more from an OS than just directories and files & it would be nice to have a common way of getting at some of those services. Like I said, not everything could be standard because there are features that may or may not be supported, so maybe provisions for OS specific packages would still be in order. I could come up with a laundry list.... :-) MDC -- Marin David Condic Senior Software Engineer Pace Micro Technology Americas www.pacemicro.com Enabling the digital revolution e-Mail: marin.condic@pacemicro.com Web: http://www.mcondic.com/ "Mark Biggar" wrote in message news:3C4EF2AA.31A78C84@attbi.com... > > There is already an amendment AI for this. See AI95-00248-01 > on http://www.ada-auth.org/AI-SUMMARY.HTML >