Comment by kps

4 years ago

OS X does in the GUI; they're isomorphic to ‘:’ at the UNIX level. (The Mac used ‘:’ as the directory separator.)

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rootbear  4 years ago

And a : in a file name at the GUI level gets turned into a dash! I just tried to name a text file "Foo/Bar 10:01.rtf" and it changed it to "Foo/Bar 10-01.rtf"!

  • kps  4 years ago

    In that case the GUI is merely changing the file name you type; in a shell you'll see it as "Foo:Bar 10-01.rtf".