Extending the UNIX pathname syntax

[Dan Levin N6BZA]

> 	Jack Jansen, {decvax|philabs|seismo}!mcvax!jack
> Has anyone implemented something like this already? Anyone feels
> like doing so? Any comments?

My XENIX 3.0 machine (Intel 310/286) uses this sort of thing to access
MS-DOS floppies.  You specify /dev/floppy:msdos_pathname to a group
of MS-DOS related commands.   Works rather well.

Also, V8 uses this exact method to do networking. /dev/machine_name/pathname
gets you a file on another machine transparently.
-- 
			***dan

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