Re[2]: [MacPerl] MacPerl to Unix

["Michael.Houghton" <Michael.Houghton@nctsw.navy.mil>]

use pedantic;

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Subject: Re: [MacPerl] MacPerl to Unix
Author:  Scott_Ananian@sil.org at Internet
Date:    8/19/96 9:38 PM



We've been discussing this very issue in another thread on this mailing list....

Unix filenames are of the form:

/dir/dir/dir/filename.extension

--actually, to be pedantic, they are /dir/dir/dir/filename where '.' happens to 
be a valid filename character. The name.extension format is a DOS-ism (to name 
one OS) but is only a naming _convention_ in Unix and Mac.

Mac filenames are like:

Volume:dir:dir:filename.extension

-- see above pedantic remark...

no pedantic;

Michael Houghton