Re: Elementary fie naming question
Re: Elementary fie naming question
- Subject: Re: Elementary fie naming question
- From: Graff <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2004 15:41:55 -0500
On Jan 11, 2004, at 3:24 PM, Gary Lists wrote:
Axel Luttgens wrote [01-11-04 1:06 PM]:
It used to be that if you specified a date as part of a name in the
Finder and it had a format of xx/xx/xx it would automatically change
to xx-xx-xx.
Damn! I never noticed this...
But you may never be sure, and as you insisted upon this, I
immediately
woke my good old PB 170 with MacOS 7.5.5 and gave this a trial.
No problem: I renamed a folder as "Dossier 03/03/99" and it happily
kept
that name unchanged.
There was an error in the reply "It used to be that...". I the poster
meant
(I believe) that if you named a file thusly --> aaa:bbb:ccc
then the Finder (OS9 and below) does change that to --> aaa-bbb-ccc
There may have been some confusion introduced because of that. To my
experience, there is no problem naming a file using the "/" character
in OS9
and below.
Hmm, maybe I am misremembering it but I also believe that for the first
few versions of Mac OS X it was set up so that a naming something
aaa/bbb/ccc became aaa-bbb-ccc. I seem to remember setting a date as a
file name in the Finder and having the forward slashes change to
dashes. Then again I may be wrong on that, I don't have a machine set
up with Mac OS 10.0.x or 10.1.x to test it. I do remember colons
getting changed to dashes in Mac OS 9 or earlier, that's for sure.
I do know that Apple has been doing some tweaking the way file names
are converted between the shell and the Finder, but I'm not sure as to
the extent of those tweaks. There was some discussion of it in some of
the programming forums a while ago.
- Ken
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