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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: a07f3367d7,31af760e939556ef X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,public,usenet X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news3.google.com!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!newsfeed.straub-nv.de!news.musoftware.de!wum.musoftware.de!news.tornevall.net!not-for-mail From: "Jeffrey R. Carter" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Interpretation of extensions different from Unix/Linux? Date: Tue, 04 Aug 2009 12:18:08 -0700 Organization: TornevallNET - http://news.tornevall.net Message-ID: References: <8a5f3b98-1c5a-4d47-aca7-e106d1223fa9@a26g2000yqn.googlegroups.com> <87skg7952j.fsf@jspa-nykredit.sparre-andersen.dk> NNTP-Posting-Host: 092d62ad6993e7ffa31bc6dd85cb11b1 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: 6277e5cd36310d4bb2c3299410b21b42 X-Complaints-To: abuse@tornevall.net X-Complaints-Language: Spoken language is english or swedish - NOT ITALIAN, FRENCH, GERMAN OR ANY OTHER LANGUAGE! In-Reply-To: X-Validate-Post: http://news.tornevall.net/validate.php?trace=6277e5cd36310d4bb2c3299410b21b42 X-SpeedUI: 1738 X-Complaints-Italiano: Parlo la lingua non � italiano User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (Windows/20090605) X-Posting-User: 9b22bfe2855937f9b3faeec7cfc91295 Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:7577 Date: 2009-08-04T12:18:08-07:00 List-Id: vlc wrote: > > I just noticed that I have to take care when processing file names / > extensions as the creators of Ada seem to disagree with the UNIX / > Linux guys about the composition of a file name. Ada is OS independent, and tries to be OS neutral. It's if you assume otherwise that you'll cause yourself trouble. -- Jeff Carter "This trial is a travesty. It's a travesty of a mockery of a sham of a mockery of a travesty of two mockeries of a sham. ... Do you realize there's not a single homosexual on that jury?" Bananas 27