[Info-vax] Java portability and VMS

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <4d5eee14$0$23762$14726298 at news.sunsite.dk>,
	Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> writes:
> On 18-02-2011 11:34, glen herrmannsfeldt wrote:
>> Arne Vajhøj<arne at vajhoej.dk>  wrote:
>> (snip)
>>
>>> Opening a file with the name C:\test.txt on Unix does not
>>> work well either.
>>
>> Well, c:\test.txt is a legal unix file name, so if you have
>> a file by that name you can open it.
> 
> I think if is the key here.

Well, the same is true in DOS.  "IF" the file exists it will work and
"IF" it doesn't both would fail.  What's your point?

     "Propose to an Englishman any principle, or any instrument, however
      admirable, and you will observe that the whole effort of the
      English mind is directed to find a difficulty, a defect, or an
      impossibility in it. If you speak to him of a machine for peeling
      a potato, he will pronounce it impossible: if you peel a potato
      with it before his eyes, he will declare it useless, because it
      will not slice a pineapple." -- Charles Babbage

bill

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