Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!usc!apple!farrier From: farrier@Apple.COM (Cary Farrier) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: use of : instead of / Message-ID: <3480@internal.Apple.COM> Date: 10 Aug 89 23:14:05 GMT References: <8908092340.AA26029@trout.nosc.mil> <10699@smoke.BRL.MIL> <3478@internal.Apple.COM> Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA Lines: 24 In article <3478@internal.Apple.COM> farrier@Apple.COM (Cary Farrier) writes: >In article <10699@smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn) writes: >>So "a:b/c" parses as "a" "b/c" while "a/b:c" parses as "a" "b:c"? >>Is that supposed to be rational? > > Yes, this allows you to use file systems which use the colon > as a separator and the slash as a character. > Whoops, but only in the first combination. The second combination is illegal *always* in GS/OS, because the colon is always illegal in a GS/OS path (because of the way things work on the inside). Cary Farrier -- +--------------+-------------------------+----------------------------------+ | Cary Farrier | farrier@goofy.apple.com | The contents of this article are | +--------------+-------------------------+ real. Only the facts have been | | Copyright 1989 Cary Farrier | changed to protect the innocent. | | All Rights Reserved | | +----------------------------------------+----------------------------------+