Greg Ewing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> In any case, if we all start writing code that makes assumptions
> about pathname syntax, and some platform comes along in the future
> that does things differently, we're hosed.
Some conventions in the world are converging.
For example a byte universally has 8 bits, and a machine word is
always 8 bits times some power of 2. This used to vary.
EBCDIC is nearly dead, everything is a superset of ASCII. Unicode
becomes more common.
It's very likely that any new OS, if it uses textual filenames at all,
will use either the Unix filename convention, or - if it's made by
Microsoft - a bastardized Unix convention.
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__("< Marcin Kowalczyk
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