Re: SixPack mods for Linux users

--- In [email protected], Dave McGuire <Mcguire@...> wrote:
>
> On 10/17/10 2:34 AM, "Fish" (David B. Trout) 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.
> 
>    Every time I accidentally type '/' (the two or 
> three times a year 
> that I have to do something on a Windows box ;)) it 
> doesn't work, at 
> least in a "cd" command at a prompt.

It works for me with Windows Vista ...

C:\devel>cd pdos/s370

C:\devel\pdos\s370>cd ../..

C:\devel>

But I was surprised to see that.

> Do you mean in fopen() calls (or 
> whatever the Windows API equivalent is)?

It was only this that I expected to work, as the
system call has accepted a "/" from way back in
the MSDOS days, as far as I can remember.

So because the API works, it is then up to the
individual application if it does any edit
check on that.

BFN.  Paul.