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Path name for Mac

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greatkingrat

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Aug 7, 2001
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I'm a MacOS beginner and I have 6 questions now.
I want to know how MacOS represents its path string.

Currently I found :

Unix path /usr/bin
Equivalent Mac path Name:usr:bin
Question 1. Is it right?

Unix relative path ../src
Equivalent Mac path ::src:
Question 2. Is it right?
Question 3. ::src: cannot be :src ?
( because unix allows both ../src and ../src/ )

Unix current path ./src
Equivalent Mac path :src:
Question 4. Is it right?
Question 5. Like question 3, :src: can be :src ?

Question 6. Does MacOs has a program to type a command
like Unix console ?

Thank you very much.

Hee S. Chung
heesc@netian.com
 
1-5The MacOS reads paths full paths, such as
HardDrive:folder one:folder two:folder:file

6 No, not really. There were som ethird-party utilities that tried to put a CLI on teh MacOS, but they sucked.
 
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