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: 103376,85034d1ac78a66eb X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-03-15 08:23:46 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeeds.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!psinet-eu-nl!psiuk-p4!uknet!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: Ada Operating System Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 12:32:37 -0500 Organization: Posted on a server owned by Pace Micro Technology plc Message-ID: References: <3c77b476.322111671@news.cis.dfn.de> <3C88E0D1.89161C16@despammed.com> <3C8EAFF7.B6CFF9A6@flash.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: dhcp-200-133.miami.pace.co.uk X-Trace: nh.pace.co.uk 1016127159 3396 136.170.200.133 (14 Mar 2002 17:32:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@news.cam.pace.co.uk NNTP-Posting-Date: 14 Mar 2002 17:32:39 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:21292 Date: 2002-03-14T17:32:39+00:00 List-Id: Never said there weren't other OS's that didn't also make it difficult. But perhaps we're also talking about something entirely different. We once approached the issue of being able to get an arbitrary filename, open the file as a stream of bytes, suck up the file & be able to spit it back out again & have it be the same thing it once was. (It was a databasey kind of thing.) The DEC guys strongly recommended we didn't attempt to do that. After attempting to do so, we also came to that conclusion. For all the sins of Unix at least it was possible to treat a file as a stream of raw bytes when it was convenient to do so. (Not that you couldn't have the files contain all sorts of interesting attributes & organizations - just that all information needed should be copyable using a byte stream.) That would be a capability I'd build into an OS if I was building one from scratch. 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/ "Larry Kilgallen" wrote in message news:YHWJXo5va3QF@eisner.encompasserve.org... > > So is it trivial to write a Copy command for partitioned data sets > under MVS that works across an SNA network honoring wildcarded > specifications ? > > I think even the current MacOS 9 "Copy" command is a bit complex, > certainly running in the background and possibly even parallelizing > its own work. > > "Copy" is a capability whose desired effect is obvious to the > human but considerably difficult to implement in a pleasing fashion.