-alpha- wrote:
John W. Kennedy wrote:
>Never, ever, ever use '\' to separate directories
But why? On mswin filesystems, '\' is default delimiter AFAIK. Un *nix
i'll use '/'.
As I explained, Windows accepts (and MS-DOS did before it) either '/' or
'\' in file names. The COMMAND.COM and CMD.EXE shells require '\'
because '/' was already assigned to another use in MS-DOS 1.0, but even
they will accept '/' if the path is enclosed in quotation marks.
Inside a program, '\' can cause problems, so it's easier and safer to
use '/' (and also helps make your program portable).
--
John W. Kennedy
"But now is a new thing which is very old--
that the rich make themselves richer and not poorer,
which is the true Gospel, for the poor's sake."
-- Charles Williams. "Judgement at Chelmsford"
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