UNSAFE INTERFACE PathName_ux;

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IMPORT Udir;


CONST
  CaseSensitivity = TRUE;
  (* are names in the file system case sensitive? *)

  ExtSepChar = '.';
  ExtSepText = ".";
  (* the character used to separate the extension part of a file system name
   from the rest of the name e.g. in the Unix name "foo.c" the dot separates
   the main part of the name ("foo") from the extension ("c") *)

  DirSepChar = '/';
  DirSepText = "/";
  (* the character used to separate different components of a filing system
   path name. e.g. in Unix the name "a/b/c" has three components separated by
  the separator character "/". *)

  SepChars = SET OF CHAR{ExtSepChar, DirSepChar};
  (* a set made up of both separators *)

  CurrentDirText = ".";
  (* name of the current directory *)

  MaxLength = Udir.MAXPATHLEN;
  (* the maximum length allowed for the full path name of a filing system
   object *)

  MaxComponentLength = Udir.MAXNAMLEN;
  (* the maximum length allowed for a single component of a filing system
   path name (i.e. the maximum length of a directory entry) *)

END PathName_ux.