That makes it seem as if it was recognised as an issue with Universe but
not address in Unidata (backwards compatibility reasons?)

If Unidata just uses the path in the VOC and concats the record id on to
it, that would be mean there will be no way to restrict it within
Unidata.

It wouldn't be as much of an issue if they only allowed canonical
pathing to result from the concatenation...

Does anyone currently use this in Unidata as a 'feature'?

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Martin
Phillips
Sent: Thursday, 2 July 2009 6:04 PM
To: U2 Users List
Subject: Re: [U2] DIR-type files

Hi Dan,

> At ECL, if you type ED BP ../../etc/host
> You get the /etc/host file in ED!

This works in Unidata because it simply forms the operating system level

name by merging the file name and record id.

UniVerse has name translation rules for restricted characters and your 
example would end up as
   ?..?\..?\etc?\host
and, if using type 1 files rather than type 19, would then get further 
transformation into a two level directory structure.

Both methods have their advantages and disadvantages.


Martin Phillips
Ladybridge Systems Ltd
17b Coldstream Lane, Hardingstone, Northampton, NN4 6DB
+44-(0)1604-709200 

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