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Michael Pohoreski wrote:
>
> Kind of makes one wonder who the hell decided to use the colon as a path
> separator on classic Mac OS when Unix & ProDOS already used the forward
> slash?? Another NIH syndrome of Apple?

No, it's so you could name files with a short date, like 10/84 or somesuch.