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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:
>>>>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?

a slash is the unix standard, if gno is a unix like shell the a slash
MUST be allowed, a slash must stay.

>>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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