Re: doc patch - archive/restore_command on windows

ITAGAKI Takahiro wrote:
> I found the examples of documentation about archive_command and
> restore_command for Windows are incorrect or improper.
>
>  - "copy" doesn't accept / (slash) as a path separator.
>    We should use \\ (double backslash) for the purpose.
>  - Windows path is typically starts with a drive letter (C:\\).
>  - We'd better to quote a whole path, not only the last filename
>    with double-quotes. It can work, but is not a windows manner.
>
>
>
>   

As previously discussed, we should probably stop recommending use of the 
Windows copy command altogether, and recommend use of GnuWin32 cp 
instead, for archive_command. The latter does behave sanely w.r.t. 
forward slashes.

cheers

andrew

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