6 Mar
2005
6 Mar
'05
9:19 p.m.
So, what else have we got out there for file/directory
path
separators? We've got DEC's "DEVICE:[DIR.SUB]FILE.TXT;1" and
uhm... actually, I can't think of the conventions for any others
at the moment. Can anybody think of any interesting ones? I can't
remember what DomainOS did, but I remember it striking me when I
learned of it. Mainframes? RTOSes?
Primos used <mfd>dir>subdir>filename. I think the syntax came
from Multics? Prime certainly borrowed a number of
other ideas from
that source.
I seem to recall AOS-VS using colons.
Didn't ITS use a semicolon to delimit "directories"?
Oh, I know! CP/M used "USER nn<cr>". :-)
De