On Friday 16 May 2003 04:34 pm, Anthony Adachi wrote:
> >  And what happens when you try to move a file to a file system 
with different naming rules?
>
> I don't know and I'm not sure why that's relevant?

Well, what if you have a file on your local drive whose name is:

/Users/Me/some\Oddly:NamedFile

which is a legal name in the local file system.

Now you want to move this to a Windows SMB share, which allows neither 
backslashes nor colons in its filenames. Something's got to change. 
Or perhaps you have too many or too few characters on one of the 
systems.

In this case you can't necessarily move a file from A to B and back to 
A and expect it to have the same name.

I'd hoped that the rename would do a full move, apparently not.
You could also look at the OSProcess plugin (though I don't know if 
it's working yet on OS/X); it has some OS hooks that might be more 
helpful.

Tim's right about the need to clean this stuff up. File handling (and 
file directory/name manipulation especially) is a mess in Squeak.

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