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[Alain Schremmer]

Jonathan Kew wrote:

> On 28 Sep 2005, at 3:05 pm, Alain Schremmer wrote:
>
>> But of course, I do resent "to no longer be able to use dates such as 
>> 28/09/2005 in file names."
>
>
> Have you tried?

… to print … as pdf something from the web (which I do a lot) or just 
save something from MSWord (which I just did for the occasion)?

> The Finder (and other GUI tools) will happily allow this.

Yes, once it's there, I can change the name to whatever I want.

So, I will rephrase the above as:

    But of course, I do resent having, in many cases, to use two steps
    "to use dates such as 28/09/2005 in file names." when I used to be
    able to do it in one.

Indeed, nothing like precision! After all I am a mathematician if only a 
half-baked one and washed-out at that. :-)

>
> (But when you look at the names in Terminal, you'll see that the 
> slashes have been mapped to colons -- the GUI layer swaps the path- 
> separator characters from Unix and classic Mac OS, to preserve the 
> user experience Mac folks grew up with. So at the Unix level, that 
> filename would include "28:09:2005".)

Being a true old Mac folk, I absolutely refuse to look at the Terminal ;-) .

Best regards
--schremmer

>
> JK
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