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Article #162Re: mkdir
From: Steven T Chiang
Date: Sat, 07 Nov 1992 23:36
Date: Sat, 07 Nov 1992 23:36
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>>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. Hmm, maybe you should convert the "/"'s to colons. That'll make it work with either HFS or ProDOS partitions, and then the user doesn't have to know what the file system is. >| James Brookes | Inet: bb252@cleveland.freenet.edu | Steven Chiang Order - DreamGrafix: The ONLY 16/256/3200 stc7@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu color paint program for the Apple IIGS. America On_Line: DWS Steve Genie: S.Chiang4 Apple IIGS Forever!
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2.gno Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!europa.asd.contel.com!emory!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!news.columbia.edu!cunixb.cc.columbia.edu!stc7 From: stc7@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Steven T Chiang) Subject: Re: mkdir Message-ID: <1992Nov7.233619.3996@news.columbia.edu> Sender: usenet@news.columbia.edu (The Network News) Nntp-Posting-Host: cunixb.cc.columbia.edu Reply-To: stc7@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Steven T Chiang) Organization: Columbia University References: <1992Oct28.101536.27413@actrix.gen.nz> <Bx75M3.6pw@CAM.ORG> <1dhe7lINNfs5@charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu> Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 23:36:19 GMT Lines: 19