On a Mac it is just diskname:folder1:folder2:blah.txt The colon is the path
delimiter, and is the only illegal character in a mac path.
But I'm most curious as to why you would need this. Presumably you're
writing your client in a web browser? In that case you're never really
exposed to the peculiarities of the client filesystem. And if you're writing
a network client, this would be taken care of by the API.
Julian
on 4/19/01 7:52 PM, Shawn Reed at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Greetings all,
>
> I'm currently in the middle of developing a rather large piece of software
> written in PHP. I'll spare you the details, but essentially it is a glorified
> FTP client. The goal here, of course, is to develop a client that will work
> on any platform. In theory, this SHOULD work, because PHP runs server-side,
> therefore eliminating any problems that would normally arise from differences
> between the various platforms.
>
> However, it occurred to me that there isn't really a way (that I know of) to
> directly address a specific filename on a Macintosh as there is in other
> operating systems. For example, in Windows I could type
> C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\BLAH.EXE or in Unix I could type /var/spool/mail/whatever
> ... but is there a way to do such a thing on a Mac? Can you directly address
> a file several levels deep in the filesystem without using the MacOS interface
> itself to do so? The project I'm doing relies on the ability to do just that,
> and it would appear that I've hit a bit of a snag.
>
> If anyone can offer any suggestions or advice, I'd really appreciate it.
> Thanks in advance.
--
Julian Wood
Learning Technologies and Digital Media
University of Calgary
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