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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.

  Believe it or not, a lot of GNO's design hours is deciding issues
like this.

  The definition of separator is basically this:

  The first one of : and / to appear in a left to right scan of the
pathname.

  That definition is used by GNO and GS/OS.  If the separator is a :,
then you leave '/'s alone. If the separator is a '/', then you can
convert them to colons if you really feel it necessary, but GNO & GS/OS
will in fact eat '/'s as yummily as ':'s.


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