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From: peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: What about the serial port IPC discussion?
Message-ID: <1957@sugar.UUCP>
Date: 10 May 88 02:23:51 GMT
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Perhaps someone could explain how this "name mapper" is to work?

And why?

Because, after all, the devices already have names. The serial port
is "serial.device, unit 0". Fred's superserial card will have "fred.device,
units 0-3". 

Is it a generic name server, that could be used for other types of devices,
and if so why not use one of the existing name spaces: the file system, for
example. Or Manx's setenv/getenv routines. You can do a fancy frontend for
them just as well as for any other name spaces.
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