----- Original Message ----- From: "Erik Hatcher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Ant Developers List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, January 04, 2002 17:32 Subject: Re: Refactor of PathTokenizer - am I missing something?
> > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Steve Loughran" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Now as an extra bit of confusion, it is worth noting that ";" has special > > meaning on an NTFS file system, as it lets you specify 'content streams' > > under a filename. Mac users will know what I mean as resource and data > > forks, other people will only have come across the issue as one of the > many > > IIS hacks to get ASP source. > > > > build.xml;1 === build.xml as you normally see it > > build.xml;2 === some other fork you can attach to a file > > NT was designed by the same person that built VMS, but VMS uses ";" to > separate version numbers as its a versioning filesystem. > > How did it go from versions to 'content streams' between the two O/S's?? Davec may have done both core os's, but NTFS is always rumoured to have been designed by two MSFT employees over a weekend, the file system so well designed "you dont need to defragment it", at least. not until nt5 shipped a few years behind schedule. > And why aren't other operating systems using versioning implicitly? clearcase is this, a networked versioned file system. > At one company where I worked, our version control system *was* the > operating system, thanks to VMS, and it worked very well. Oh how I miss > VMS.... The technical term is retro-grouch. Why not get and old microvax and bring it up if you miss it so much :) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
