Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!rutgers!ucsd!ucbvax!RICHTER.MIT.EDU!krowitz From: krowitz@RICHTER.MIT.EDU (David Krowitz) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo Subject: Re: How does ios_dir_$open work? Message-ID: <8808161329.AA01477@richter.mit.edu> Date: 16 Aug 88 13:29:49 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 16 Yet, you must admit that it seems a little strange that there is this call to simplify access to objects across a transparent file access mechanism and it does not work with local objects. After all, isn't the whole idea of transparent file access supposed to be that the application program can't tell whether or not the file is local? In the case of the IOS_DIR$OPEN call, the application must know beforehand that the object is NOT local! -- David Krowitz krowitz@richter.mit.edu (18.83.0.109) krowitz%richter@eddie.mit.edu krowitz%richter@athena.mit.edu krowitz%richter.mit.edu@mitvma.bitnet (in order of decreasing preference)