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
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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


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