Appeal No. 2002-0695
Application No. 09/132,731
specified using source language statements and it may assert the need for making the
selection of a “file-system” as easy as possible [reply brief-page 4], it is appellants who
solve this problem by allowing a “file system” to be specified by source language
statements so that a resulting object program includes different instructions for
performing the input and output operations depending on the “file-system” specified by
the source language statements. The examiner has offered nothing as to why the
claimed file-system identifier provided by the source program statements would be the
same as merely specifying a “file name.”
The examiner has pointed to nothing within Coker, Archer, or the background
section of the instant specification which convinces us that it was known or would have
been obvious to provide for “wherein at least one of the received statements includes a
file-system identifier that permits selection of a file system for performing input and
output operations in the source program and the file-system identifier is selected from a
group comprising a literal, an environment variable, and a data name; and...compiling
the source program into an object program in the memory of the computer, wherein the
object program includes instructions for performing the input and output operations
according to the file-system identifier that permits the selection of the file system.”
CONCLUSION
5
Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Next
Last modified: November 3, 2007