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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!hp9000.csc.cuhk.hk!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!sdd.hp.com!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!geraldo.cc.utexas.edu!sylvester.cc.utexas.edu!not-for-mail From: vax@sylvester.cc.utexas.edu (Vax) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: object oriented filesystem Date: 2 Dec 1993 03:12:18 -0600 Organization: The University of Texas - Austin Lines: 15 Message-ID: <2dkbhi$hsh@sylvester.cc.utexas.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: sylvester.cc.utexas.edu I am interested in making an OO language, similar to a cross between smalltalk and LISP, with low overhead - if I make it into an operating system, I see great advantages in how it could deal with specific file types (as classes). For a simple example, when you edit, say, an "/etc/master.passwd" on a BSD-4.3/4 system, it could automatically update the "/etc/spwd.db" file. Or compressed filetypes could be "cast" to normal ones, and vice-versa. Graphic file formats could be interchanged without conversion utilities. Are there similar efforts underway? If not, is there a good reason why? Would it be easy to implement something like this on a NetBSD system? Please reply via email. -- Protect our endangered bandwidth - reply by email. NO BIG SIGS! VaX#n8 vax@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu - Don't blame me if the finger daemon is down