From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me
X-Spam-Level: 
X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID,
	REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4
X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit
X-Google-Thread: 103376,347d22f6dce4e40
X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public
From: kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen)
Subject: Re: System Calls
Date: 1998/12/24
Message-ID: <1998Dec24.140342.1@eisner>#1/1
X-Deja-AN: 425573923
X-Nntp-Posting-Host: eisner.decus.org
References: <3677F2B6.FDC20000@gla.ecoledoc.lip6.fr>
 <7598nc$5lg$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <36793CF7.6795AA80@gla.ecoledoc.lip6.fr>
 <75bsm6$ccl$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <75tmgp$bjf@top.mitre.org>
 <75tv4m$vmm$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>
X-Trace: news.decus.org 914526231 20897 KILGALLEN [192.67.173.2]
Organization: LJK Software
Reply-To: Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Date: 1998-12-24T00:00:00+00:00
List-Id: <comp.lang.ada>

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