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AmigaOS paths are separated with "/" between directory elements, not "\", but with a volume name separate from the path name with a ":", similar to Windows.

But what makes matters more complicated, is that on AmigaOS "/" is equivalent to "." on Unix systems, and "//" equivalent to "..", and "."/".." are legal filenames. AmigaOS doesn't have an equivalent to "/" in Unix (everything is rooted in a volume, and there are many volumes), but ":" can be used to prefix a path to make it relative to the root of the current volume...

It breaks all kinds of assumptions people make..




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