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From: krowitz@RICHTER.MIT.EDU (David Krowitz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: How does ios_dir_$open work?
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Date: 16 Aug 88 13:29:49 GMT
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Yet, you must admit that it seems a little strange that there is this
call to simplify access to objects across a transparent file access
mechanism and it does not work with local objects. After all, isn't the
whole idea of transparent file access supposed to be that the application
program can't tell whether or not the file is local? In the case of
the IOS_DIR$OPEN call, the application must know beforehand that the
object is NOT local!


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