Re: The history of the MONITOR tops-10)

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From: Johnny Billquist
Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2018 19:14

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On 2018-07-15 19:20, Sam Weiner wrote:
> In article <pidigf$p59$1...@Iltempo.Update.UU.SE>,
> Johnny Billquist  <b...@softjar.se> wrote:
>> One of the more interesting features I remember from Tops-10 was that
>> you could have a daemon that kicked in when files were accessed that you
>> did not have access rights to. And that went though a script, which
>> could modify the rules for access to the file arbitrarily. I remember it
>> being very cool, and I don't know of anything similar today.
> 
> [smw] You are talking about FILDAE (file daemon.)  See the TOPS-10
> Operating System Commands manual for more information.

Right! The name was escaping me. Thanks for reminding. It was a very 
cool feature, me brain keeps telling me. But oh so long ago now since I 
even touched Tops-10.

   Johnny

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Johnny Billquist                  || "I'm on a bus
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email: b...@softjar.se             ||  Reading murder books
pdp is alive!                     ||  tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol

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Subject: Re: The history of the MONITOR tops-10)
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