2010/8/5 Greg Ewing <greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz> > James Mills wrote: > >> Windows >> is one of the only Operating Systems with a File system that reuiqres >> this [A-Z]:\ syntax. >> > > There's also VMS, but it uses a colon too. Also its > pathnames are funky enough in other ways that it > needs its own os-specific pathname routines. > > I'm not aware of any system that's "just like Windows" > except that it uses something other than colons. > > -- > Greg
AmigaOS / AROS / MorphOS uses colon too as a volume (or device) separator: dir "Ram Disk:System/Local Preferences" Cesare
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