Re: System Calls

[kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen)]

In article <75tv4m$vmm$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>, dennison@telepath.com writes:
> In article <75tmgp$bjf@top.mitre.org>,
>   mfb@mbunix.mitre.org (Michael F Brenner) wrote:
> 
>> Since DOS and UNIX and VAXen are so similar in their ideas of what a
>> subdirectory is and what happens when executables are spawned, it
>> seems that the basic commands like change directory, rename directory,
>> move directory, copy directory, get current directory, concatenate
> 
> The problem is in the little differences. Dos uses '\', where Unix and VMS
> use '/'. In Unix that '\' is quite liable to be used in the file name to
> escape special characters.

Actually, VMS uses "[","]","<",">","." and the ever popular ";".
";" is used in particular for file versions, and a VMS user faced
with a program that did not handle file versions properly would
judge it as a very poor program indeed.

So the problem is just as you said, only worse.

Larry Kilgallen