31 May
2002
31 May
'02
11:28 a.m.
At 08:20 AM 5/30/2002 -0700, Ethan Dicks wrote:
So... _technically_ speaking, I was on a VAX, but I was
using an
app that ran on a Mac that required me to use colon-paths. Not
a normal Mac experience, to be sure.
I ran into them while porting Mac Pascal code to C for the
DECnet port that my company published for the Amiga, called TSSnet.
Come to think of it, I think that code had to be VAX savvy, too.
I also used them in writing makefiles for the old MPW C
command-shell build environment on the Mac.
I also had to write very platform independent path-string
parsing C code for my 3D translation tool, Interchange.
It handled forward-slash, backward slash, DOS C: and
AmigaDOS DH1: and the gamut, and broke the paths down
into components, and could translate between them,
as well as substituting path prefixes.
- John