On Tue 05 Feb 2008 (15:06 -0700), Michael Petch wrote: > > > > On 2/5/08 3:00 PM, "Jim Segrave" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Simple solution, use forward slashes. Windows accepts them just fine: > > > > "C:/Documents and Settings/something/or another" is a valid windows > > path > > Otherwise you need > > > > "C:\\Documents and Settings\\something\\or another" > > > > Are you sure? Windows considers / as a command line parameter delimeter. Its > actually that problem I had to fix in the new sound screen (where you choose > the path). The first time into GnuBG the sound patsh look like: > > c:\program files\gnubg\sounds/fanfare.wav
I just tried this on my XP box at work in a command shell: dir "C:Documents and Settings/uv05qx" and got a directory listing of the subdirectory uv05qx of my Documnets and Settings folder. I know that the programatic interface (syscalls) accepts '/' as a directory separator, it's the command interpreter that has problems with using '/' as an option lead-in > It doesn't like the /. > -- Jim Segrave [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Bug-gnubg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-gnubg
