On 17 Jun 2011, at 10:09pm, john darnell wrote: > I checked two references and neither one of them mentioned this teensy > little requirement. I guess they must've thought it wasn't important.
The use of colons for file paths is purely an old-fashioned Mac thing and never worked cross-platform. So from the SQLite and sides, the programmers would never think to mention the colon format and might never have known about it (although as it happens DRH is a Mac user and doubtless does). >From the Mac side, since OS X began (twelve years ago) you've been able to use >standard Unix slash format for file paths, and the colon format has >pretty-much diminished into misuse. So only pre-OS X Mac programmers like us >would know about it. Sorry about that. But I'm keeping my copy of _Inside Mac_ because I'm convinced it's a classic. Simon. _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
