On Tue, 1 Aug 2006 14:47:59 -0300, Gerhard Fiedler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2006-08-01 12:31:01, Sybren Stuvel wrote: ... > Is that really true? From what I know, it's more like this: > > - Unix-type systems: '/' > - Windows-type systems: '\' > - Mac OS: ':' > - OpenVMS: '.' > - ... > > Maybe someone else can fill in some of the missing OSes.
AmigaDOS: '/'. (On the other hand, it didn't understand '.' and '..' without third-party patches, and it didn't have the '/' directory.). > It doesn't seem to > look like Windows is the odd man out; it rather seems that every type of OS > uses its own separator. In the 1980s, MS-DOS /was/ an ugly bastard child; lots of other systems existed that I have never heard about. As for what path separator they used and why, I'm afraid you'd have to ask on alt.folklore.computers ... /Jorgen -- // Jorgen Grahn <grahn@ Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu \X/ snipabacken.dyndns.org> R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
