Re: Zenmap not working

[Andres Soolo <dig () mirky net>]

On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 17:37, David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com> wrote:

> For some reason the Mac OS X Finder displays the ':' character as '/',
> so if you have a folder with a name like "misc/junk", its name is really
> "misc:junk" and you can't run a Python installation from inside it.

It's theoretically a feature, not a bug -- at least in the sense that it's
deliberate.  Mac OS Classic used ':' instead of '/' as the directory level
separator, apparently on the theory that slash would be more useful inside
name components than a colon.  Mac OS X follows the Unix conventions
internally, but Finder swaps colon and slash around in filenames, so the
file system looks similar to Mac OS Classic's custom when viewed through
Finder.

This swap-around is not consistently followed, however -- especially in
third-party applications, especially especially in applications coming from
Unix and other Linux-like systems.

-- 
Andres Soolo

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