Re: mkdir

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From: James L. Brookes
Date: Sat, 07 Nov 1992 21:59

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In article <Bx75M3.6pw@CAM.ORG> vandry@CAM.ORG (Phillip Vandry) writes:

>jamesb@ecst.csuchico.edu (James L. Brookes) writes:
>
>>I'll work on it...I'll probably also allow the colon as well, but require
>>that it be consistant (ie, you can't switch seperator characters part way
>>through.)  I'll upload it when that's implemented and tested.
>
>Don't bother supporting the colon.. I couldn't imagine that anyone would
>actually use the colon. That was a stupid move by Apple.

Do you realize that the colon is the only valid seperator character for
HFS formatted volumes?  Although it technically doesn't matter, when your
average user tries to use colons it would confuse them if they didn't 
work.
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Subject: Re: mkdir
Date: 7 Nov 1992 21:59:17 GMT
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