Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] Files starting with .
From: Neil McAllister (nmcallister@primo.com)
Date: Sun Oct 25 1998 - 16:52:41 EST
>> P.S. The only thing I'd call "bad" is the bad design of a filesystem which
>> denies us the right to use all of the printing characters (e.g. ':') in
>> filenames without any need for such a restriction.
>
>There is indeed a good need for this-- the colon is the path delimiter,
>just like / in Unix. Check the get info on a file or alias, or look into
>AppleScript to see this in action. (Your trash can: "hard drive:Desktop
>Folder:Trash")
I believe the gentleman's point is that it seems pretty silly for an OS
that prides itself on its user-friendliness to aribtrarily decide that
nobody should wish (or in any case, be allowed) to use the colon character
in filenames. With all the "extended" characters the Mac has available,
they could have perhaps picked a more-innocuous path delimiter.
-- Neil McAllister, Systems Administrator Primo Angeli Inc., San Francisco, CA USA mailto:nmcallister@primo.com http://www.primo.com
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