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In the Acorn DFS the "directory" was an attribute for each file that was just a letter prefixed to the file's name. It was used to group files. Since the origi
by forinti 2y ago
In the Acorn DFS the "directory" was an attribute for each file that was just a letter prefixed to the file's name.
It was used to group files. Since the original format only allowed 31 files per side, it wasn't really that useful. I never used it.
- rbanffy 2y agoIIRC, Unisys's MCP doesn't have directories, just very long file names with separators in them. It's up to the applications to present that as a hierarchical namespace. Now that I mention it, it'd be interesting to play with Apple's DOS 3.3 (33 char file names) that way.