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Post #34 by TETENAL
Source ForumMacNN
CategoryTroubleshooting
Post DateMon, 11 Apr 2005 - 12:28
Original URLhttps://web.archive.org/web/20050520073743/https://forums.macnn.com/showthread.php?t=251607
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Originally posted by OreoCookie:
I guess because the TETENAL doesn't agree with permissions being a nuisance (like the vast majority of us).
The list was my summary of his letter, not meant to imply that I agree/disagree with any of his points. I missed the complained about permissions.

In fact I believe permissions are necessary and useful, but that doesn't mean that Apple's implementation can't be criticised. Permissions got in my way a few times and at that point the OS is little help on how to fix the problem.

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Slashes in the Finder will be converted to semicolons in the Terminal and vice versa.
Colons.

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Originally posted by Weyland-Yutani:
That you can't use / in filenames The actual filename of your hypothetical file there contains no slashes. It is actually called

What:does:he:mean?


On an HFS volume the file is actually called "What/does/he/mean?". Depending on the API the OS switches between colon and slash in the way OreoCookie describes.
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