From: Brennan Leathers <digibren@...>
Date: 2003-01-11T07:09:33+09:00
Subject: Re: 'borrow' Tcl's virtual file system


On Friday, January 10, 2003, at 08:32  AM, Dossy wrote:
> The basic idea is that when you tell Tcl that you're using a VFS, it
> secretly redirects all file I/O activity to happen to the VFS and not 
> to
> the real FS.  An example of how this might "look" from Ruby might be:
>

having used tcl in the past, I know what you refer to re: the VFS. I 
know this is not an optimal solution, but there is the Objective-C 
class NSFileHandle which opens either files or sockets for r/w. I 
assume this available thru rubycocoa, just thought Id throw this out 
there for mac ppl.

brennan