Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!apple!farrier From: farrier@Apple.COM (Cary Farrier) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: use of : instead of / Message-ID: <3426@internal.Apple.COM> Date: 9 Aug 89 16:41:42 GMT References: <3391@internal.Apple.COM>Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA Lines: 14 In article bh1e+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU (Brendan Gallagher Hoar) writes: > >You say that ':' was chosen as another way of separating paths because some >OSs use / as part of legal filenames. How do the GS/OS people expect to >handle OSs that use BOTH in legal filenames? Unfortunately, we don't. You will have to take care in naming your files, if no other alternative is provided. Cary Farrier -- +--------------+-------------------------+ | Cary Farrier | farrier@goofy.apple.com | +--------------+-------------------------+