Re: File systems are semantically impoverished compared to

Albert D. Cahalan (acahalan@cs.uml.edu)
Sat, 26 Jun 1999 20:31:53 -0400 (EDT)


Stefan Monnier writes:
> "Albert" == Albert D Cahalan <acahalan@cs.uml.edu> writes:

>> So, what happens if the hidden name is ".albod" and my software
>> tries to use ".albod" as the name of a document component?
>
> How is that different from `my software tries to use ".." as the
> name of a document compound' ?

It is not different; you found yet another problem with using
directories for compound documents. Also consider "08/10/96"
and "..///..", both of which could be perfectly valid names.

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