On 12 Nov 2017, at 9:36 (-0500), David Ledger wrote:
We’ve wandered off-topic a bit (a lot?) here, but there is no ‘on-disk’ path delimiter.
Semantic quibble. In HFS+ ':' is a "never-used-in-a-name-on-disk" character because Carbon and the VFS abstraction layer for HFS+ use it as a path delimiter.
But in defense of my sloppy wording, I cite Wilfredo Sanchez (who helped create the needed bodges) at http://www.wsanchez.net/papers/USENIX_2000/:
So on disk the separator is a colon _______________________________________________ mailmate mailing list mailmate@lists.freron.com https://lists.freron.com/listinfo/mailmate