Re: mkdir

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From: Phillip Vandry
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 15:46

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>[ stuff about slashes vs. colons deleted ]

>I tend to agree. Slashes should be used as seperators, in order to stay in 
>line with the Unix-way(tm) of doing things. If, for some strange perverted 
>reason :), someone has a file named "Obnoxious filenames are /cool" on an 
>HFS volume, the file slash in the filename could be prevented from being 
>interpreted by the shell with a backslash (\) just before it...

Well, you would have to quote (') the pathname anyway because of the spaces it
contains, so the backslash wouldn't be necesary!

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From: vandry@CAM.ORG (Phillip Vandry)
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Subject: Re: mkdir
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Date: 15 Nov 92 15:46:44 GMT
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