<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi Rick,<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>If I interpret what you are saying correctly, the meaning of the primPathNameDelimiter method, which is given by </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN><primitive: 'primitiveDirectoryDelimitor' module: 'FilePlugin'></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>has changed in more recent Mac VMs (I'm running 3.8.12Beta1U). It was $:, but is now $/</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>This may well be a bug! I wonder if someone could explain why there are platform-specific directory classes and what the "right" one should be under OSX?</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>The logic for choosing the appropriate directory class used primNameDelimiter, e.g.,</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>MacHFSPlusFileDirectory >> isActiveDirectoryClass</DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>"Ok, lets see if we support HFS Plus file names, the long ones"</DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>^ self pathNameDelimiter = self primPathNameDelimiter</DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>and: [(SmalltalkImage current getSystemAttribute: 1201) notNil</DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>and: [(SmalltalkImage current getSystemAttribute: 1201) asNumber > 31]]</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>MacFileDirectory>>pathNameDelimiter</DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>^ $:</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>So, by changing the meaning of the primitive 'primitiveDirectoryDelimitor', the directory class that one gets on OSX has been changed too.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Again, what is the "correct" behavior? MacHFSPlusFileDirectory doesn't seem to work on my Mac, even after changing the default delimiter: maybe that is why the primitive was changed? </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>Andrew</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>P.S. </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>While poking around I found:</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>FileStream>>sourceFileSuffixes</DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>^ {FileStream st. FileStream cs. FileStream multiSt. FileStream multiCs} asSet asArray</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Is there a reason for the asSet asArray? To make a copy? To randomize the order? None of the senders seems to care ...</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>APB</DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On 16 Feb 2007, at 17:26, Rik Smoody wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica">I stumbled upon (probably) the same issue.</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica">Evidence, from an old image, but running it on newer VM:</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Helvetica; min-height: 17.0px"><BR></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica">Performed by Squeak 3.8.15beta1U.app, on a Mac OS X 10.3.9:</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica">FileDirectory allSubclasses collect: [:class | class->class primPathNameDelimiter ]</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica">a Set(MacHFSPlusFileDirectory->$/ AcornFileDirectory->$/ UnixFileDirectory->$/ MacFileDirectory->$/ DosFileDirectory->$/)</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Helvetica; min-height: 17.0px"><BR></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica">The answer from Squeak 3.8.9beta8.app, on the same Mac</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica">a Set(MacHFSPlusFileDirectory->$: AcornFileDirectory->$: UnixFileDirectory->$: MacFileDirectory->$: DosFileDirectory->$:)</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Helvetica; min-height: 17.0px"><BR></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica">The old-version answer is somewhat more compatible with the Mac.</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Helvetica; min-height: 17.0px"><BR></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica">For example, when running one old utility image, I got this message:</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica">/Tomato:Users:Rik:Pictures does not exist</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica">the problem apparently caused by that leading $/</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica">as changing that manually back to a $: reveals the expected existence of the file.</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV>Andrew P. 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