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AcornFileDirectory
  category: System-Files
  superclass: FileDirectory
  subclasses:

No comment. Sorry.

instance methods
  file name utilities
  fullPathFor:

  private
  directoryContentsFor:

class methods
  platform specific
  isActiveDirectoryClass
maxFileNameLength
pathNameDelimiter

instance methods
  file name utilities top  
 

fullPathFor:


  private top  
 

directoryContentsFor:

Return a collection of directory entries for the files and directories in the directory with the given path. See primLookupEntryIn:index: for further details.


class methods
  platform specific top  
 

isActiveDirectoryClass

Does this class claim to be that properly active subclass of FileDirectory
for the current platform? On Acorn, the test is whether platformName
is 'RiscOS' (on newer VMs) or if the primPathNameDelimiter is $. (on
older ones), which is what we would like to use for a dirsep if only it
would work out. See pathNameDelimiter for more woeful details - then
just get on and enjoy Squeak


 

maxFileNameLength


 

pathNameDelimiter

Acorn RiscOS uses a dot as the directory separator and has no real concept of filename extensions. We tried to make code handle this, but there are just too many uses of dot as a filename extension - so fake it out by pretending to use a slash. The file prims do conversions instead.
Sad, but pragmatic