Re: Slashes in filenames (was: Elementary fie naming question)
Re: Slashes in filenames (was: Elementary fie naming question)
- Subject: Re: Slashes in filenames (was: Elementary fie naming question)
- From: Graff <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 09:16:22 -0500
On Jan 13, 2004, at 7:27 AM, Axel Luttgens wrote:
The whole matter started with a post from Bernard Azancot, who
encountered problems while trying to save files with names containing
slashes from a 'tell app "Tex-Edit Plus"' script (December 16th).
Marc and Ken suggested to change the slashes into dashes.
I felt somewhat uncomfortable with that workaround, as something
deeper seemed to be at work.
I first reacted to a statement from Ken, but that provoked a thread
through which I was not sure to recognize my own sentences and
arguments anymore, so that I decided to start a new one ;-)
The fact is that there seems to be a globally inconsistent behavior
with regards to slashes in file names.[1]
Which is really what I was getting at. Sure the various behaviors are
probably due to bugs, but either way the safest path (and the simplest
explanation) is just to avoid forward slashes and colons in file names.
Like the old joke goes, "Patient: It hurts when I move my arm this
way. Doctor: Then don't move it that way!"
- Ken
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