[Python-3000] Help on text editors

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Fri Oct 6 02:54:21 CEST 2006


Martin v. Löwis wrote:
> OSX got a step beyond that: While the folder on disk is
> always called "Applications", it is rendered with a directory name
> of "Programme" if you use the German localization, in the OSX Finder.
> While it solves the problem, it is very confusing if you use shell-level
> interaction

I think this was actually handled better in classic MacOS.
Special folders like System, Applications etc. weren't
located by name at all, but by a different mechanism.
So you could name them anything you wanted.

--
Greg


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