On May 7, 2009, at 9:34 AM, Jakub Narebski wrote:
BTW. this is not only MS Windows that have problems with ':' in paths
(because of it being drive letter separator), but also IIRC MacOS X,
where ':' and not '/' is directory separator.
Just FYI:
: was the directory separator in Mac OS 1-9. OS X uses / like most
sane people. Finder will stop you from creating files or directories
with : in the name, but the following works just fine from Terminal.app:
$ uname -a
Darwin Laptop.local 9.6.0 Darwin Kernel Version 9.6.0: Mon Nov 24
17:37:00 PST 2008; root:xnu-1228.9.59~1/RELEASE_I386 i386
$ touch test:test
$ ls test*
test:test
$ rm test:test
$
~~ Brian
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