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Re: Directory separators [message #23758] Tue, 13 February 2001 09:43 Go to previous message
hahn is currently offline  hahn
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Ben Tupper <btupper@bigelow.org> wrote:

> Howdy,
>
> I have been using the following function to select the appropriate OS
> specific directory separator. I have two questions about it: (1) what
> is the correct directory separator in VMS?,

VMS uses brackets to enclose the directory information as a whole
and periods to delimit subdirectory names. In case of logical names
more than one pair of brackets may occur...

> and (2) is there a built-in
> means of getting the same information?

You may use filepath to set a file name independend of on OS.
Parts of the directory will be given as elements of a string
array.

Norbert
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