On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 9:13 AM, Tamas Marki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Even in Turbo C++ you had to escape backslashes, because they denote
> special characters, otherwise things like
>
> fopen ("c:\tmp\new.txt");
>
> would be considered as opening a file named "c:<tab>mp<newline>ew.txt".
>
> On the other hand the forward slash notation also works under Windows
> since at least Windows 2000 (possibly earlier).
Ah, ok, my memory is vague on these things (especially Turbo C which I
haven't used since like 1994 or so) ... most programming on Windows I
do these days is typically under CygWin so it's almost (but not quite)
completely unlike programming Windows natively.
-- Brett
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