Re: Internal Filename Representations (was Re: Summary of I/O related RFCs)

>>>>> "DLN" == David L Nicol <[email protected]> writes:

DLN> Chaim Frenkel wrote:
>> 
>> Sitting on a unix box, and getting to C: on a windows box?

DLN> That implies a whole pile of implementation details.  Are you
DLN> suggesting a Perl Orifice to run on all participating windows
DLN> boxes?

No. But the underlying protocol/transport layer may want the file
name in the remote format.

DLN> I'd
DLN> like to call "open" with the arguments I can currently pass
DLN> to "hose" from the netpipes package, that would simplify writing
DLN> TCP clients.

Sorry, I couldn't parse this. What did you mean by this.

<chaim>
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