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From: hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr)
Subject: Re: Slcompress -- enforce HW flow-control, patch
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References: <CAAo67.K0o@sugar.NeoSoft.COM> <BLYMN.93Jul23195409@siren.awadi.com.au> <CAn2LH.6I8@sugar.NeoSoft.COM>
Date: Sat, 24 Jul 1993 05:30:20 GMT
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In article <CAn2LH.6I8@sugar.NeoSoft.COM> peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
>In article <BLYMN.93Jul23195409@siren.awadi.com.au> blymn@awadi.com.au (Brett Lymn) writes:
>> Peter> 	/dev/sio00/clocal/19200/cs8/crtscts
>
>> Close but a bit limiting how about:
>> /dev/sio/io@3f8,4/clocal/19200/cs8/crtscts
>
>> So that you can build the i/o address and irq into the file system as
>> well.
>
>Hmmm. Hmmm. Looks interesting as a starting point. But how about:
>
>/dev/sio/io@3f8,4/clocal/19200/cs8/crtscts/hayes@222-TIPS/login=nuucp/~nuucp/new_sio.tar.Z

Prehistoric attempts at an attributed file system for Unix.

I guess our virtual file system technology is not that great
after all.


Cheers,
Amancio
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