Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] Files starting with .
From: Andrew McNabb (amcnabb@argus-systems.com)
Date: Mon Oct 26 1998 - 17:46:41 EST
On Mon, 26 Oct 1998, Juergen Christoffel wrote:
> They did a lot of studies? That makes me curious: do you have a pointer as
> to where to find these? Given the visual nature of the user interface they
> didn't need a delimiter at all: no command line interface as in Unix with
> the need to use a printable character which one can type, and no, MPW and
> AppleScript did appear much later; internal structures could cope with any
> byte code and even could use schemes without an explicit delimiter at all.
It's handy with programming or any task that requires typing in a filename
to be able to use the delimeter. It wouldn't do any good if it were some
non-printable character.
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