Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ginosko!aplcen!haven!adm!smoke!gwyn
From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: use of : instead of /
Message-ID: <10699@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 10 Aug 89 15:24:45 GMT
References: <8908092340.AA26029@trout.nosc.mil>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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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?