Re: It works!

[Philippe Lhoste <PhiLho@...>]

(Slowly making my way through the 300+ messages written since my two 
week holidays...)

Rob Kendrick wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 08, 2004 at 01:16:52AM +0000, David Given wrote:
>
> > Alex Sandro Queiroz e Silva wrote:
> > [...]
> >
> > > > Just one thing, though. Can I suggest that Lua *must* provide a 
> > > > directory listing function as part of its core functionality?
> > >
> > >   You don't have to go back further than a week in the archives to  
> > > read about this... :-)
> >
> > The short summary is that you can't, because there's no standard way of 
> > doing it that's truly portable across all platforms. And, 'all 
> > platforms' includes weird and wacky embedded systems that don't support 
> > any IO.
> >
> > Let me put it like this: do you use /, \, :, . or <other> to seperate 
> > path elements?
>
> And even more excitingly, do you use / or $ as the root directory, or ..
> or ^ to go up a level? :)  (RISC OS must have the most bizarre paths
> I've ever personally seen.  ADFS::HardDisc4.$.Applications.!Zap for
> example)
>
> There's a reason the ANSI C library distances itself from directory
> structures.

If I recall correctly, Bull's Mini6 I used in my student years used 
something like GCOS6 or 7, where directory separators were < or >, 
depending if you were going up or down in the hierarchy...
Can't recall much more details, so don't ask! ;-)

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