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Hi Peter, Andrew, Edkso:<div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Thanks for the clear summaries and proposals. Just to clarify, I was only referring to the temporary (non-persistent) data. So, yes: newFile :: *File would be perfect. But from Andrew's description of the problem, it seems be non-trivial to implement, as ObjectIO would have to be modified too.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Thanks,</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>--shiv--</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><br><div><div>On Aug 24, 2007, at 5:25 AM, Peter Achten wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">I agree with Andrew's posting: the whole point of Clean's file I/O system is to "partition the hard disk", this is literally what an individual File does. From Shivkumar's account above, I gather that the data is already present, and hence "a fresh virtual partition of the hard disk" will not aid you, because you specifically wish to get to precise data. If you do wish a fresh partition (File), then what you're really after is something like</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><br></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>newFile :: *File</font></p> </blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>