On Sat, 15 Sep 2012 10:11:06 -0700, Charles Mills wrote: >I think that's a little more intuitive, frankly. > >FOO:BAR means FOO:BAR >:FOO:BAR means something:FOO:BAR > >The leading punctuation says "something goes here." > Yup.
>A single node is always relative, despite the above convention? That's doing >the user too many favors. > Not exactly. I sad it was Bad History. Originally the MFS was flat; no directories. A file specification was either VOLSER:FILENAME or simply FILENAME, on the current active volume. When HFS (beware overloading) came along, the leading colon was added to indicate that a path was relative. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
