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Date: Mon, 06 Sep 2004 15:43:56 +0200
From: Helge Hafting <helge.hafting@hist.no>
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Horst von Brand wrote:

>Spam <spam@tnonline.net> said:
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>>Horst von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl> said:
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>>>Helge Hafting <helge.hafting@hist.no> said:
>>>      
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>>>[...]
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>>>>The only new thing needed is the ability for something to be both
>>>>file and directory at the same time.
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>>>>
>>>Then why have files and directories in the first place?
>>>      
>>>
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>>  Good point, we don't need them :)
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>
>Great. Then everything is a firectory (or dile?). And a firectory points at
>other firectories and contains data. I just don't see how you are supposed
>to distinguish the data from further firectories...
>  
>
By name.
fopen("somefile", "r");  //opens somefile data
fopen("somefile/substream", "r");  //opens a substream of somefile. 

Helge Hafting