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From: Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid>
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On 11/11/2011 10:21 PM, Andreas Leitgeb wrote:
> Eric Sosman<esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid>  wrote:
>> [...]   Note that in some file systems
>> there is no such thing as a "path separator;" on one such I had
>> files with names like
>> 	SYS$DISK:[USERS.ERIC.PROJECT]README.TXT;22
>
> Such beasts still exist in the wild?
> Or was it something embedded like e.g. on a smartcard?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Files-11#Disk_organization_and_naming

     "A fossil!" I hear you cry, "A dried relic of prehistory!"
Yet, according to

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenVMS#Major_release_timeline

... there was a new release (V8.4) just over a year ago.  The V7.0
version was roughly contemporaneous with the first release of Java.

-- 
Eric Sosman
esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid