Date: Tue, 21 Oct 1997 09:32:40 +1300 From: physmsa AT cantua DOT canterbury DOT ac DOT nz (Mr M S Aitchison) Subject: Re: disk devices (was ls, killing disk 0) To: opendos AT delorie DOT com Message-id: <199710202032.JAA19004@cantua.canterbury.ac.nz> Precedence: bulk > > This character file, is only usable in OS/2. > > Just as /dev/hda1 is only usable in a Unix. > > This is OS-dependend. > > DOS doesn't have these kind of files. > > Maybe it's a good idea to implement it? There aren't a lot of good reasons to implement "raw" disk device files like unix, since it risks people destroying things and most of the benfits are available via IO controil reads/writes that is already a feature of DOS. A read-only subset of the OS/2 notion might be something though. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mark Aitchison, \_ Phone: +64 3 364-2947 home 337-1225 Dept of Physics & Astronomy,