Re: Filesystems (was My First Computer)

[CBFalconer <cbfalconer@yahoo.com>]

Bill Leary wrote:
> 
> <nospam@nouce.bellatlantic.net> wrote in message
> 3e46cd95.1900021135@news.bellatlantic.net">news:3e46cd95.1900021135@news.bellatlantic.net...
> > All the stuff for Linux and NT however is majorly off topic for here
> > unless you plan to describe a version implemtation to replace the file
> > system used for CP/M.
> 
> Now that you mention it, when I was running CP/M 3.0 on a Morrow Micro
> Decision with an HD, I seem to recall briefly running something (replacement
> BDOS and CCP, or maybe just CCP) which gave a hierarchical file system with
> long (well, 32 character) names.  It did some kind of file-name magic to
> permit standard CP/M programs to open and close those files.  Name mangling
> similar to what you see when you do a DIR on a Windows system.  If you
> booted the system into normal CP/M 3, all the files had legal, but
> unintelligible, names and there was a file which contained the hierarchical
> "file system."
> 
> Anyone else remember that?  What it was called or how it worked?

I seem to remember that ZCPR had some means of translating user
numbers into names.  This may be what you remember.  I didn't
consider it useful.

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