Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] Files starting with .
From: Brian Bergstrand (brianb@niu.edu)
Date: Mon Oct 26 1998 - 09:44:20 EST
[snip]
>>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.
Hmmmm... You wouldn't want to know how many files I have named
"month/day/year" on my Mac. Maybe "they" should have
"...picked a more-innocuous path delimiter.". I hate it when an OS
arbitrarily decides that I don't want to use the forward slash character
in filenames. ;)
BTW, "they"(Apple) did a lot of studies on the filesytem directory
delimiter, just like
they did on the one or two button mouse thing. Guess what, Apple chose ":"
because
most users in their studies said that would be the least likely character
they would
use in the name of a file. I wouldn't call that arbitrary.
>--
>Neil McAllister, Systems Administrator
>Primo Angeli Inc., San Francisco, CA USA
>mailto:nmcallister@primo.com http://www.primo.com
Brian
Brian Bergstrand
Network Specialist - ACS
Northern Illinois University
815-753-8547
brianb@niu.edu
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