Macintosh directory paths

From: John Foust <jfoust_at_threedee.com>
Date: Fri May 31 15:28:11 2002

At 08:20 AM 5/30/2002 -0700, Ethan Dicks wrote:
>So... _technically_ speaking, I was on a VAX, but I was using an
>app that ran on a Mac that required me to use colon-paths. Not
>a normal Mac experience, to be sure.

I ran into them while porting Mac Pascal code to C for the
DECnet port that my company published for the Amiga, called TSSnet.

Come to think of it, I think that code had to be VAX savvy, too.
I also used them in writing makefiles for the old MPW C
command-shell build environment on the Mac.

I also had to write very platform independent path-string
parsing C code for my 3D translation tool, Interchange.
It handled forward-slash, backward slash, DOS C: and
AmigaDOS DH1: and the gamut, and broke the paths down
into components, and could translate between them,
as well as substituting path prefixes.

- John
Received on Fri May 31 2002 - 15:28:11 BST