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| From | Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.java.programmer |
| Subject | Re: A strange behaviour of a File property |
| Date | 2011-11-13 12:42 +0000 |
| Organization | UK Free Software Network |
| Message-ID | <j9odvj$ti8$1@localhost.localdomain> (permalink) |
| References | (4 earlier) <j9ls7c$5t9$1@dont-email.me> <slrnjbtrll.fvg.avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> <4ebef5e8$0$290$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> <slrnjbu79d.fvg.avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> <4ebf2081$0$289$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> |
On Sat, 12 Nov 2011 20:42:21 -0500, Arne Vajhøj wrote: > On 11/12/2011 8:28 PM, Andreas Leitgeb wrote: >> Arne Vajhøj<arne@vajhoej.dk> wrote: >>> On 11/12/2011 5:09 PM, Andreas Leitgeb wrote: >>>> Eric Sosman<esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> wrote: >>>>> On 11/11/2011 10:21 PM, Andreas Leitgeb wrote: >>>>>> Eric Sosman<esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> wrote: >>>>>>> [...] Note that in some file systems there is no such thing as a >>>>>>> "path separator;" on one such I had files with names like >>>>>>> SYS$DISK:[USERS.ERIC.PROJECT]README.TXT;22 >>>>>> Such beasts still exist in the wild? >>>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Files-11#Disk_organization_and_naming >>>>> "A fossil!" I hear you cry, "A dried relic of prehistory!" >>>> I'm not the type who would cry out about it, but I admit, I did think >>>> something more or less similar. >>> I do not consider version numbers prehistoric relics. >> >> Of course not those... (I think I've seen them even in some modern >> filesystems with versioning support). >> But I do consider the brackets enclosing the directory part of a file's >> path to be such. (namely prehistoric relics) > > So / is modern but [] is oldfashioned. > > Are there any objective reason for that? > >>> * Java actually supports both native syntax and traditional >>> *nix / syntax for filenames >> >> So that gets us back to the start: >> Just using "/" as dir-separator is very likely to get you far enough. > > It will get you to where a user actually specify a filename in normal > native syntax. > ... but its best to get into the habit of assembling a filename along the lines of dirNameList + File.separator + fileName rather than using dirNameList + "/" + fileName -- martin@ | Martin Gregorie gregorie. | Essex, UK org |
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A strange behaviour of a File property alelvb@inwind.it - 2011-11-11 05:45 -0800
Re: A strange behaviour of a File property Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2011-11-11 07:34 -0800
Re: A strange behaviour of a File property alelvb@inwind.it - 2011-11-11 09:28 -0800
Re: A strange behaviour of a File property Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2011-11-11 14:17 -0800
Re: A strange behaviour of a File property alelvb@inwind.it (Alexo) - 2011-11-12 15:04 +0100
Re: A strange behaviour of a File property Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2011-11-12 09:15 -0500
Re: A strange behaviour of a File property alelvb@inwind.it (Alexo) - 2011-11-12 16:17 +0100
Re: A strange behaviour of a File property Zlatko Đurić <zladuric@gmail.com> - 2011-11-12 16:09 +0100
Re: A strange behaviour of a File property Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2011-11-12 10:13 -0500
Re: A strange behaviour of a File property Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2011-11-11 16:25 +0000
Re: A strange behaviour of a File property alelvb@inwind.it - 2011-11-11 09:42 -0800
Re: A strange behaviour of a File property Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-11-11 13:24 -0500
Re: A strange behaviour of a File property Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2011-11-11 14:13 -0800
Re: A strange behaviour of a File property Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2011-11-11 20:38 -0500
Re: A strange behaviour of a File property Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2011-11-12 03:21 +0000
Re: A strange behaviour of a File property Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2011-11-12 08:26 -0500
Re: A strange behaviour of a File property Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2011-11-12 22:09 +0000
Re: A strange behaviour of a File property Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-11-12 17:40 -0500
Re: A strange behaviour of a File property Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2011-11-13 01:28 +0000
Re: A strange behaviour of a File property Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-11-12 20:42 -0500
Re: A strange behaviour of a File property Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2011-11-13 12:15 +0000
Re: A strange behaviour of a File property Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2011-11-13 12:42 +0000
Re: A strange behaviour of a File property Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2011-11-13 13:06 +0000
Re: A strange behaviour of a File property Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-11-12 17:25 -0500
Re: A strange behaviour of a File property Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2011-11-13 01:15 +0000
Re: A strange behaviour of a File property Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-11-12 20:40 -0500
Re: A strange behaviour of a File property Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2011-11-13 12:42 +0000
Re: A strange behaviour of a File property Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2011-11-12 21:11 -0500
Re: A strange behaviour of a File property Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2011-11-13 20:50 +0000
Re: A strange behaviour of a File property Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2011-11-14 08:18 -0500
Re: A strange behaviour of a File property Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2011-11-14 17:38 +0000
Re: A strange behaviour of a File property Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2011-11-14 21:51 -0500
Re: A strange behaviour of a File property Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2011-11-15 14:17 +0000
Re: A strange behaviour of a File property Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2011-11-15 22:20 -0500
Re: A strange behaviour of a File property Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2011-11-16 12:14 +0000
Re: A strange behaviour of a File property Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2011-11-16 08:10 -0500
Re: A strange behaviour of a File property Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2011-11-11 19:46 -0800
Re: A strange behaviour of a File property Owen Jacobson <angrybaldguy@gmail.com> - 2011-11-14 00:24 -0500
Re: A strange behaviour of a File property Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2011-11-13 22:00 -0800
Re: A strange behaviour of a File property Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-11-12 05:00 -0800
Re: A strange behaviour of a File property Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-11-12 09:15 -0500
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