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Re: A strange behaviour of a File property

Newsgroups	comp.lang.java.programmer
From	Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at>
Subject	Re: A strange behaviour of a File property
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Date	2011-11-13 12:15 +0000

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Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> 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?

In a way, I envy you (Eric and Arne) for your wider horizon. I've 
never got in touch with it, and haven't found any official ISO image
or zip or tarball, either, to get my own hands on it. (I guess the
"open" in "openvms" is more like the one in "openmotif", than the
one in "openoffice". :-)

That said, I do have my "personal reasons" for calling openvms 
essentially irrelevant for new software development (a bit like
pre-X MacOS, CP/M - not to mention my sharp pocket-computers from
last decade's eighties).  I'm not going to write a thesis on
scientific classification of operating systems by their "obsolete-
ness", though.

It's the same principial reason, btw., that makes others discard
anything non-MS.

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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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