OS delimiter question

Thierry Arbellot thierry.arbellot at wanadoo.fr
Sat Mar 5 03:33:05 EST 2005


On 2005, Mar 5, , at 08:34, MisterX wrote:

> Hello MacOS and linux friends
>
> Im writing a file path OS delimtier function...
>
> and im wondering if:
>
> all unixes use the "/" ?
>
> and if osx's path delimiter is still ":" or
> has it gone to slash form?
>
> Just for the trivia,
> do most mac stacks have the ".rev" file type appended by default
> to their filename?
>
> Thanks in advance
> Xavier

OS X uses both ":" and "/"
the Finder uses ":" but the shell uses "/"
same problem if you write an external: Carbon functions uses ":" when 
standard C functions (e.g. fopen) use "/"

Hope it helps.

Thierry




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