TMPLee@DOCKMASTER.NCSC.MIL (08/04/89)
Well, its a good way of knowing when we get a copied disk rather than a shrink-wrap original we probably have the real officially released disk. After I got my copy from ComputerLand I had a slight concern they might have had a beta release (it wasn't on original disks and I had to change the names from SystemV.Disk and IIGSTools.5 to System.Disk and System.Tools so the Installer could find itself; I don't know what the officially released disks are called, but would assume they are System.Disk and System.Tools.) By the way -- what is the motivation for changing path names to using :'s instead of /'s? Damned confusing since most applications even if they use the toolbox routines still tend to use /'s in lots of places, and of course ProDos8 only knows about /'s. TMPLee@dockmaster.NCSC.MIL
dlyons@Apple.COM (David Lyons) (08/05/89)
In article <890804154633.137428@DOCKMASTER.ARPA> TMPLee@DOCKMASTER.NCSC.MIL writes: >[...] I don't know what the >officially released disks are called, but would assume they are >System.Disk and System.Tools.) Yup. >By the way -- what is the motivation for changing path names to using >:'s instead of /'s? Damned confusing since most applications even if >they use the toolbox routines still tend to use /'s in lots of places, >and of course ProD[OS]8 only knows about /'s. ProDOS 8 isn't affected, since the separators (":" or "/") aren't stored on disk in the file system anyway. GS/OS allows both ":" and "/" to be used as separators in pathnames, but you can't mix them inside any given pathname. Whichever of the two appears first is the separator, and if "/" is the separator no ":"s are allowed. But life was simpler when "/" was the only separator...why change? Because even though ProDOS doesn't allow "/" in filenames, AppleShare does (and so do other filing systems that GS/OS may want to support in the future). Note that the "old" toolbox and OS calls that existing programs use still return slashes whenever they can. For example, SFGetFile returns a pathname with slashes for separators, unless slashes are actually being used within filenames or directory names in the path. (I hope I got that right.) --Dave Lyons, Apple Computer, Inc. | DAL Systems AppleLink--Apple Edition: DAVE.LYONS | P.O. Box 875 AppleLink--Personal Edition: Dave Lyons | Cupertino, CA 95015-0875 GEnie: D.LYONS2 or DAVE.LYONS CompuServe: 72177,3233 Internet/BITNET: dlyons@apple.com UUCP: ...!ames!apple!dlyons My opinions are my own, not Apple's.