Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!cmcl2!nrl-cmf!ukma!gatech!purdue!decwrl!sun!pitstop!sundc!seismo!uunet!mcvax!enea!kth!draken!liuida!dat01 From: dat01@teorix.liu.se (Dat) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Devices in general Keywords: devices speak 1.3 1.4 Message-ID: <1086@teorix.liu.se> Date: 1 Dec 88 12:02:29 GMT References: <5015@garfield.MUN.EDU> Organization: CIS Dept, Univ of Linkoping, Sweden Lines: 24 In article <5015@garfield.MUN.EDU> john13@garfield.MUN.EDU (John Russell) writes: >I am still very interested in seeing what sort of devices could be >constructed and integrated into the general environment. 14 (the number >assign shows as being mounted now) is only a start :-). > >One which comes immediately to mind is a spooling daemon, spool:. ... [ stuff deleted ] >John >-- What I would like to do is use the devices as some kind of pipes. For example: saveas CRYPT:ZOO:MSDOS:file This should encrypt the file, send it along to ZOO for packing and then save it on an MSDOS disk. Another examples: copy from ARC:MSDOS:file.arc to ZOO:DH0:file.zoo read a file from an MSDOS disk, un-arc it, pack it with ZOO and save it on my hard disk. _____________ /// WWWWW Mikael Karlsson, Lovsattersvagen 10, S-585 98 LINKOPING, SWEDEN /// {@v@} "I may be artificial, but I'm not stupid." \\\/// \w/ "Give me a fixed address, and I will move the World" \XX/