Re: [cc65] Filenames for POSIX functins on CBM targets

From: <silverdr1wfmh.org.pl>
Date: 2012-08-12 00:12:32
On 2012-08-11, at 20:00, Ullrich von Bassewitz wrote:

>>>  * Everybody has his pet syntax for this purpose.
>> 
>> A missing standard is from my perspective no excuse to not support it at all.
> 
> If you write a program and require the user to enter a file name, you will
> need to teach him the required syntax. This is difficult if he is used to
> something else.

This should be for the programmers, not the users. The users should have UI with fields to choose/enter device, drive, file. Programmers should know what to do with what users enter.

Now the problem is that programmers don't have a way to deliver those choices (of devices) to the users.

-- 
SD!

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