slash in file name on OS X

[Josh Mellicker]

Thanks Phil, I figured as much.

These will be already-captured video files, in which some people put  
the date... grrrrr!


On Sep 5, 2007, at 5:20 PM, Phil Davis wrote:

> Josh Mellicker wrote:
>> If there is a slash in the file name on OS X, Revolution replaces  
>> it with a colon ":"
>> Unfortunately, this means the file cannot be found.
>> Of course, replacing colons with slashes doesn't help, since Rev  
>> interprets this as an extra folder.
>> Has anyone solved this problem?
>
> Hi Josh,
>
> My solution: disallow slashes in filenames.
>
> Rev lets you detect slashes in filenames (by listing the files in a  
> folder for example) but doesn't let you [successfully] reference  
> files whose names contain them.
>
> Slashes aren't allowed in filenames on Windows IIRC, so if you're  
> making a multi-platform thing you'll need to deal with it there  
> anyway.
>
> I don't know a workaround.
>
> Phil Davis
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