MS-DOS, HFS, and other file separators

[Witchy]

> On Fri, 2005-03-04 at 13:36 -0500, Steve Jones wrote:
>> So, what else have we got out there for file/directory path
>> separators? We've got DEC's "DEVICE:[DIR.SUB]FILE.TXT;1" and
>> uhm... actually, I can't think of the conventions for any others
>> at the moment.
>
> Acorn's DFS is :drive.dir.filename - but dir can only be a single
> character (and directories can't be nested).
>
> What about Commodore machines - did they support directories at all?


Nope at least on PETs etc, you only had the root directory of a disk to
play with. The ICL DRS20 I used at college had $drive-directory.filename
for syntax, so a typical file was $0-foo.prog.cbl. I think. Bear in mind
I've not touched a DRS system for 20+ years :) Is there a full DRS20 at
BP? I know the terminal is there but is the big twin floppy box?

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