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From: Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at>
Subject: Re: A strange behaviour of a File property
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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)

> * 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.