> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Wilkinson [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Friday, October 08, 1999 9:09 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Explanation of files in /dev directory
>
>
> Hi All,
>
> I've got two "files" (some kind of streams things) sitting in
> the /dev directory
> on our 3000s. Anyone know what these are for?

I assume you mean files other than /dev/null, /dev/tty, and LDEV-based
things like /dev/tape.

"Streams" is a whole big complicated I/O API.  I don't pretend to understand
it.

A related thing is DLPI, which is a networking API and I think it's on MPE
because Netware required it.  Once upon a time I attempted to port the
tcpdump packet sniffer (which uses DLPI) to MPE, but I abandoned the effort
due to a lack of documentation about MPE's implementation of DLPI.  But now
that I'm on the inside of CSY, hmmmm.....

- Mark B.