MS-DOS, HFS, and other file separators

Steve> Let us say, "not many average Mac users." Though limiting it Steve> to "average XYZ users" leaves the named group open to Steve> accusations of all manner of ignorance and stupidity... ;^) Even in Mac OS X you can still see this -- various applications show colon-separated file names in the "recently opened files" list. MS Word, for example. Steve> So, what else have we got out there for file/directory path Steve> separators? We've got DEC's "DEVICE:[DIR.SUB]FILE.TXT;1" and Steve> uhm... actually, I can't think of the conventions for any Steve> others at the moment. Can anybody think of any interesting Steve> ones? I can't remember what DomainOS did, but I remember it Steve> striking me when I learned of it. Mainframes? RTOSes? OS/360 didn't have any, because it didn't have directories. Same for various other operating systems, like CDC's. I forgot if Burroughs had them. TOPS-20: DEV:<DIR.SUB>FILE.TXT.1 -- and VMS accepts that syntax too, or at least much of it (. for version separator, certainly). TOPS-10: DEV:[nnn,nnn]FILE.TXT (no version) -- RSTS and RSX and DOS ditto through RSX had octal numbers while RSTS and TOPS were decimal. paul