[Ham-Mac] Lesson Re-Learned about filenames

[David Ferrington, M0XDF]

I guess being a long term Unix man, I just don't use / in filenames - ever, anywhere!
73 de M0XDF
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On 10 Nov 2010, at 11:53, Dick Kriss wrote:

> The two applications that could not deal with the slash in the filename were
> fldigi and tqsl.  Fldigi is Unix application that runs on Windows, Linux or
> OS X and tqsl is PC application ported to run under OS X.  I have learned
> to avoid the use of the slash in filenames.
> 
> Dick AA5VU
> 
> 
> On 11/9/10 9:42 PM, "David Kelly" <dkelly at hiwaay.net> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On Nov 9, 2010, at 8:04 PM, Dick Kriss wrote:
>> 
>>> I the old Mac rule revisited is to avoid the use of the slash (/) character
>>> in filenames.
>> 
>> 
>> MacOS X Finder is happy to put a slash in a filename. Its written to disk as a
>> colon which will cause problems for Windows. Am not sure where the
>> substitution takes place or how it behaves if shared via SMB/Samba.
>> 
>> --
>> David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly at HiWAAY.net
>> ========================================================================
>> Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad.
>> 
>> 
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