Usenet 1994 January/usenetsourcesnewsgroupsinfomagicjanuary1994.iso/sources/std_unix/volume.21/text0092.txt

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From: [e-mail] (Peter da Silva)

Other operating systems have learned from UNIX in this respect, in fact!

AmigaOS puts all manner of interesting things in the file name space,
including pipes (PIPE:name), windows (CON:Left/Top/Width/Height/Title/Flags),
and the environment (ENV:varname). Other things have been left out but are
being filled in by users (it's relatively easy to wite device handlers on
AmigaOS). There are some really odd things like PATH:. This can be opened
as a file and looks like a list of directory names, or used as a directory
in which case it looks like the concatenation of all the named directories.
--
Peter da Silva.   `-_-'
[phone].   'U`
[e-mail]

Volume-Number: Volume 21, Number 93