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From: dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Enviroment (was Re: Yea, but can an Amiga Shell do this....)
Message-ID: <8809091733.AA25665@cory.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: 9 Sep 88 17:33:50 GMT
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>I am not trying to give you a hard time.  I am impressed by the
>programming you have done.  However, your comment implied that any
>program that (and by extension anyone who) confuses exactly when to
>use a colon must be stupid.  I have been bit by Format over exactly
>this problem.  I do not consider myself stupid.
>So...  Give ME a break.
>	Charles

	Well, you could at least use a better example.... I've *never*
been bit by Format, but I have been bit by ReLabel.... but since I got 
the wrong results using the colon on the new volume name it was obvious
I had to omit the colon....

	Even so, these meager special-case examples are hardly enough reason
to go changing (or complaining) about the filesystem naming conventions.  UNIX
is not without its quirks either... 

	for instance, having to ignore the '.' and '..' entries when traversing
directories.  Having to check for and ignore (sometimes) softlinks, having
to worry about non-files (devices) and other things....  It builds up!

					-Matt