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Re: mkdir

#167
From: Steven T Chiang
Date: Sun, 08 Nov 1992 10:09
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In article <bazyar.721213865@teal> bazyar@teal.csn.org (Jawaid Bazyar) writes:
>stc7@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Steven T Chiang) writes:
>
>>	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.
>
>   Steve, this isn't necessary.  GNO & GS/OS can deal just fine with both
>colons and slashes as separators.  You ought to see the logic in GNO's
>pathname processing code to deal with it!  Under GNO and I presume
>GS/OS too, you can CD into directories on an HFS, etc. volume with the slash,
>as long as none of the pathname components have slashes in them.

	I know GS/OS can handle them both for ProDOS...  from James'
statement about :'s being the only separator for HFS, I guess I was
under the impression that to access a HFS it would require /hd1/path
to be :hd1:path...  but I could be wrong... I'm not that up to date
about HFS and GS/OS...

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