rruegner wrote:
as far i know,
\ / are interpreted as path signs, i am not clear why any software should interpret this in another way.
using special signs as filenames are a bug in user brain not in the software of fileservers, whatever you use
Except that the Mac uses neither (internally it uses ':' as a path element separator) and both are valid for use in filenames (as are ?, *, -, and a whole pile more). So in the context of the original query, there is no element "bug in user brain" - the users have simply been using what the OS allows.
Interestingly, with OS X if I create a folder called Test/Folder, in a terminal shell ls shows it as Test:Folder.
Simon
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