Re: SixPack mods for Linux users

"paoloG" <[email protected]> Sun, 17 Oct 2010 07:03:32 -0000
Newsgroups gmane.comp.emulators.hercules390.vm
Message-ID <[email protected]>

--- In [email protected], "\"Fish\" \(David B. Trout\)" <fish@...> wrote:
>
> paoloG wrote:
> 
> [...]
> > It's not Windows that deals with "/", but it's Hercules (a program)
> > that reads the config file and accepts both "\"  and "/".
> > 
> > Windows by itself doesn't support "/".
> 
> Incorrect.
> 
> Windows has supported *either* forward slash *OR* backward slash for many,
> many years now.
>

I tested it with Window 2000 SP4: in cmd mode "/"  doesn't work (not even using your tricky  "./"....

> 
> [...]
> > Your solution works only in Linux.
> 
> His first one, yes, but his second attempt -- using DEFSYM -- *should* work
> just fine on both Windows as well as *nix.
> 

It *should* work but I tested it and it *doesn't* work.........
>
 
> > I think a right solution should work both in Windows and Linux.....
> 
> See above.
> 

See above....

Paul 

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