home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Newsgroups: comp.arch
- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!Germany.EU.net!incom!orfeo!qb!vhs
- From: vhs@rhein-main.de (Volker Herminghaus-Shirai)
- Subject: Re: Comparison of Alpha, MIPS and PA-RISC-II wanted
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.194657.759@qb.rhein-main.de>
- Sender: vhs@qb.rhein-main.de (Volker Herminghaus-Shirai)
- Reply-To: vhs@rhein-main.de
- References: <1992Dec20.164501.291@rlgsc.com>
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 92 19:46:57 GMT
- Lines: 24
-
- In article <1992Dec20.164501.291@rlgsc.com> gezelter@rlgsc.com writes:
- [discussion about file formats on VMS vs. UNIX flat file deleted]
- > Incorrect. The reason that you cannot read it with C is that C
- > has consistently ignored the standardization of IO interfaces.
-
- #include <stdio.h>
-
- (The first line in the first example code in the K&R C book)
-
- Honestly it's the definition of IO that's missing here. C/UNIX
- have standardized on NOT sequential but flat direct-access files
- for the filesystem and sequential access for pipes, some devices,
- input format for most system commands, etc.
- Other OSes have standardized on supplying high-level file formats
- only (which is braindead) and even others offer both.
- I would hazard to say that using non-flat files just isn't as open
- as flat files, simply because the lowest common denominator is
- exceeded.
-
- --
- Volker Herminghaus-Shirai (vhs@qb.rhein-main.de)
-
- Looks good on the outside, but -
- intel inside
-