Pick Remote Files

Pick remote files are standard Pick files on a nonlocal Pick machine.

Pick files on remote hardware can be accessed as if they were existent on the local machine. To do this, it is necessary to create a super Q-Pointer to that remote file. The first attribute of this master dictionary item is a Q, the second attribute is blank, and the third attribute contains the remote machine’s host name, followed by a colon, followed by the complete Pick path on the remote machine.

NOTE

It is necessary to create an appropriate host item in the hosts file to indicate how to communicate with that host.

Once the super Q-Pointer has been created, the file can be opened, read, and written just like any local Pick file.

See Also

hosts File

Open Systems File Interface

Super Q-Pointer