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From: jazzman@claris.com (Sydney R. Polk)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: use of : instead of /
Message-ID: <10481@claris.com>
Date: 10 Aug 89 20:41:27 GMT
References: <10699@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Organization: Claris Corporation, Santa Clara CA
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From article <10699@smoke.BRL.MIL>, by gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn):
> In article <8908092340.AA26029@trout.nosc.mil> delton@pro-carolina.cts.com (System Administrator) writes:
> -Harumph?  GS/OS takes as the terminator the first terminator used in a
> -pathname so if you start out using : then : is the terminator.  If you start
> -the path with / then / is the terminator and : could be in the file/directory
> -names.
> 
> So "a:b/c" parses as "a" "b/c" while "a/b:c" parses as "a" "b:c"?
> Is that supposed to be rational?

What he meant is :
 ":a:b/c" parses "a" and "b/c"
 "/a:b/c" parses "a:b" and "c"

I imagine it goes through some serious higgery jiggery when parsing partial
pathnames.

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