----- Original Message ----- From: "Magesh Umasankar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Ant Developers List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2002 7:21 AM Subject: Re: Fw: Bug 5219
> From: "Stefan Bodewig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > On Tue, 29 Jan 2002, Magesh Umasankar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > >> Might be a dumb question: but which operating system uses more than > > >> one character for a path separator? > > > > Well, it is a String and not a char in Java for some reason. > > Reason is convenience according to Sun folks ;-) > (Check out JDK1.3 javadoc for java.io.File) > > > I can't remember the path separator on VMS, but both : and ; are > > special parts of filenames there (and I still would like to know what > > Jav's system property file.separator is on VMS). > > Good luck finding that ;-) > when I write an operating system, I shall use "- ? -" as the path separator, just to test everyones assumptions. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
