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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: use of : instead of /
Message-ID: <10685@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 8 Aug 89 21:39:59 GMT
References: <8908052325.AA11880@obsolete.UUCP> <3391@internal.Apple.COM>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <3391@internal.Apple.COM> farrier@Apple.COM (Cary Farrier) writes:
>	The reasoning behind using a ':' as a separator is to support
>	file systems which utilize the '/' as a legal character in a
>	filename.

Harumph.  What about file systems (e.g. UNIX) for which ':' is a legal
character in a filename?