[BUG][FIX?] UnixFileDirectory

Bert Freudenberg bert at isgnw.CS.Uni-Magdeburg.De
Mon May 8 15:01:38 UTC 2000


On Mon, 8 May 2000, Stephan Rudlof wrote:

> I'm not sure if this is a good manner to fix this problem, or if a
> deeper refactoring would be better.
> Under Unix '/' is a real directory, and not just a path delimiter like
> the corresponding characters/strings in other file systems.

The root of the problem is that by convention, in Squeak '' stands for the
root of the file system (see FileDir>>root). IIRC, on Windows 
	(FileDirectory on: '') directoryNames
gives the list of all drives (this is how the File List works). On Mac,
it gives what?

But I don't see an easy way to make Unix behave like this.  I'd say your
fix is just fine ...

-- Bert






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