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In article <1992Nov7.233619.3996@news.columbia.edu> 
stc7@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Steven T Chiang) writes:
>>>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.

That's an idea, although a slash IS a valid character for a filename/directory
name...then again, I wouldn't want to encourage the use of slashes in 
directory names either ;-)

Comments, anyone?

>Steven Chiang                  Order - DreamGrafix:  The ONLY 16/256/3200
>stc7@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu       color paint program for the Apple IIGS.
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