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- Submitted-by: chip@tct.uucp (Chip Salzenberg)
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- According to brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein):
- >The beauty and power of UNIX is the abstraction of files---
- >not filesystems.
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- The filesystem means that anything worth reading or writing can be
- accessed by a name in one large hierarchy. It means a consistent
- naming scheme. It means that any entity can be opened, listed,
- renamed or removed.
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- Both the filesystem and the file descriptor are powerful abstractions.
- Do not make the mistake of minimizing either one's contribution to the
- power and beauty of UNIX.
- --
- Chip Salzenberg at Teltronics/TCT <chip@tct.uucp>, <uunet!pdn!tct!chip>
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- Volume-Number: Volume 21, Number 118
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