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From: "Nick Roberts" <nickroberts@adaos.worldonline.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Directory listings and path names
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 23:20:26 -0000
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"Mark Biggar" <mark.a.biggar@attbi.com> wrote in message
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> ...
> There is already an amendment AI for this.  See AI95-00248-01
> on http://www.ada-auth.org/AI-SUMMARY.HTML

The latest version is AI95-00248-04 and this may be updated (e.g. with some
of my own suggestions ;-) People reading this thread, do please take a look
at this AI, and make any (reasonable) suggestions you may have.

The theme of the proposal is to provide a fairly minimal, lowest common
denominator, set of operations relating to files and directories.

It is certainly intended to be as operating-system independent as possible;
however, some weight must surely be given to the predominance of UNIX and
MS-DOS/Windows, and the many variants whose file and directory facilities
are based upon or similar to them.

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Best wishes,
Nick Roberts