Re: Interpretation of extensions different from Unix/Linux?

["Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>]

On Wed, 2 Sep 2009 19:49:10 +0000 (UTC), tmoran@acm.org wrote:

>>> I have an application that builds mp3 playlists. I specify the
>>> root directory of the mp3 file tree on the command line, the Ada code
>>> searches within that directory for mp3 files to add to a playlist.
>>
>> I said "typically". A command-line application for maintenance of
>> playlists, which does not support file browsing by is by no means typical.
> 
>   "Unusual" for one person is "typical" for another.
> 
> I have an Ada system that runs a TV station.  There are lots of places
> where the user uses a GUI to indicate a show, and the program needs to
> scan a directory to find its episodes, or he indicates a show episode
> and the system needs to build a playlist by scanning a directory to find
> the video files, or the user loads a DVD and the system needs to scan
> its directory to find the video files.  The user sees "show", "episode",
> "DVD" as his abstractions - he doesn't see directories or files.

And there is no way to specify the directory where files to be stored? It
is impossible to add such directories? It cannot play anything from
mountable drives?

OK, I give up. All these file-manager programs seem useless and untypical.
No need to write them in Ada.

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Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de