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From: Steven T Chiang
Date: Sun, 08 Nov 1992 06:54

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In article <1dhsdfINNga1@charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu> jamesb@ecst.csuchico.edu (James L. Brookes) writes:
>In article <1992Nov7.233619.3996@news.columbia.edu> 
>stc7@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Steven T Chiang) writes:
>>	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?

	Yeah, that's a possible problem with using other file
systems... :(  Well, accept colons for those who must have /'s in
their filenames, and convert /'s for those who are so used to /'s can
still use them.

>|          James Brookes            | Inet: bb252@cleveland.freenet.edu |

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