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[Jeanne A. E. DeVoto]

At 10:29 AM -0800 1/13/2002, yves COPPE wrote:
>I have a file which name is a date : dd/mm/yyyy
>
>If I want to open this file,
>
>open file filepathName
>
>RR considers this filename as a list of items leading to folders !
>
>How can you save me from this hell !

No problem, Yves. ;-) If your filename or path has a slash (/), you simply
substitute a colon (:). Colon is not a legal character for Mac filenames,
so there is no ambiguity.

For example, if your file is named "1/13/2002", you would write something like
  open file "/Disk/Folder/1:13:2002"

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