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My instances are what conventional programmers think of as files. My instance creation methods accept the name of a disk file (or any named file object, such as /dev/rmt0 on UNIX or MTA0: on VMS). In addition, they accept a virtual filesystem path like ‘configure.gz#ugz’ which can be used to transparently extract or decompress files from archives, or do arbitrary processing on the files.
| • FileDescriptor class-initialization: | (class) | |
| • FileDescriptor class-instance creation: | (class) | |
| • FileDescriptor class-still unclassified: | (class) | |
| • FileDescriptor-accessing: | (instance) | |
| • FileDescriptor-basic: | (instance) | |
| • FileDescriptor-binary I/O: | (instance) | |
| • FileDescriptor-built ins: | (instance) | |
| • FileDescriptor-class type methods: | (instance) | |
| • FileDescriptor-initialize-release: | (instance) | |
| • FileDescriptor-low-level access: | (instance) | |
| • FileDescriptor-overriding inherited methods: | (instance) | |
| • FileDescriptor-polymorphism: | (instance) | |
| • FileDescriptor-positioning: | (instance) | |
| • FileDescriptor-printing: | (instance) | |
| • FileDescriptor-testing: | (instance) |