On Saturday, 9 September 2017 at 13:16:30 +1200, Wesley Parish wrote:
> 'fraid so. The Unix directory structure and the correlating
> free-form file competed with the file-as- record-structure and
> directory-as-record-structure in the seventies and eighties. The
> competition had finished by the nineties, and hardly anybody
> remembers it now.
Sorry, I don't understand this. Can you give an example of
file-as-record and directory-as-record? Some of it suggests MVS, but
not quite.