I would usually agree, but the fact that it works in 2000 and not 98 makes me suspect an operating system change as I'm sure the version of perl is probably the same version, therefore should handle file paths the same. Would be interesting to test out.
-----Original Message----- From: $Bill Luebkert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2003 11:25 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Another Dos question! Dahlke, Doug wrote: > My guess is that windows 2k is doing slash to backslash translation > from the make of perl you have. Windows 98 doesn't apparently do > that. I've I'm not sure it's a 98 thingy. Most of the time you can use / in place of \. The exception is when you shell out to a shell that only likes \. Then you can do as below. I tend to do everything as / and then just before the shell-out, I will do a s#/#\\#g on the exe path and possibly on some args. > seen where people have had to describe file paths like this to be > compatible for both. > > $filename_winword="C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft > Office\\Office\\WINWORD.EXE"; > > Two "\" are required as \ is a special character. Try this and see if > that works. -- ,-/- __ _ _ $Bill Luebkert Mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (_/ / ) // // DBE Collectibles Mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] / ) /--< o // // Castle of Medieval Myth & Magic http://www.todbe.com/ -/-' /___/_<_</_</_ http://dbecoll.tripod.com/ (My Perl/Lakers stuff) _______________________________________________ ActivePerl mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs _______________________________________________ ActivePerl mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
