Re: Rules for leading colon
Re: Rules for leading colon
- Subject: Re: Rules for leading colon
- From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 02 May 2003 13:29:50 -0700
On 5/2/03 12:44 PM, "David Crowe" <email@hidden> wrote:
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Can anyone explain the rules for including a leading colon (or not)
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in a filename.
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I have found that often it doesn't matter, but sometimes the leading
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colon is required (when the file is on the startup disk). But, I just
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discovered that FileMaker Pro chokes on:
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open file ":Office:Office-Databases:Contacts"
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but it works correctly with the leading ":" removed.
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If anyone can explain the subtleties of this, I'd appreciate it.
Just forget you ever happened upon it. It was a hack that worked in older
versions (to represent the startup disk), but was never meant to. It's been
removed from AS 1.9.1 it seems. No path should begin with a colon - use the
name of, or path to, startup disk.
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Paul Berkowitz
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