From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: grog@lemis.com (Greg 'groggy' Lehey) Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2017 11:30:34 +1000 Subject: [TUHS] File-as-record (was: Happy birthday, Dennis Ritchie!) In-Reply-To: <1504919790.59b340ee1620c@www.paradise.net.nz> References: <20170908210450.C0FA618C08E@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> <20170908210927.GB24413@DD0DDC435AC34EA8A55ABC3A9753F2FB> <1504919790.59b340ee1620c@www.paradise.net.nz> Message-ID: <20170909013034.GA42338@eureka.lemis.com> On Saturday, 9 September 2017 at 13:16:30 +1200, Wesley Parish wrote: > 'fraid so. The Unix directory structure and the correlating > free-form file competed with the file-as- record-structure and > directory-as-record-structure in the seventies and eighties. The > competition had finished by the nineties, and hardly anybody > remembers it now. Sorry, I don't understand this. Can you give an example of file-as-record and directory-as-record? Some of it suggests MVS, but not quite. Greg -- Sent from my desktop computer. Finger grog at lemis.com for PGP public key. See complete headers for address and phone numbers. This message is digitally signed. If your Microsoft mail program reports problems, please read http://lemis.com/broken-MUA -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 163 bytes Desc: not available URL: