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2010/8/5 Greg Ewing <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz">greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
James Mills wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Windows<br>
is one of the only Operating Systems with a File system that reuiqres<br>
this [A-Z]:\ syntax.<br>
</blockquote>
<br>
There's also VMS, but it uses a colon too. Also its<br>
pathnames are funky enough in other ways that it<br>
needs its own os-specific pathname routines.<br>
<br>
I'm not aware of any system that's "just like Windows"<br>
except that it uses something other than colons.<br>
<br>
-- <br><font color="#888888">
Greg</font></blockquote><div><br></div><div>AmigaOS / AROS / MorphOS uses colon too as a volume (or device) separator:</div><div><br></div><div>dir "Ram Disk:System/Local Preferences"</div><div><br></div><div>Cesare</div>
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