On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 5:23 PM, Brett McCoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 11:54 AM, Paul Herring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> That's required for Windows paths now? I don't do much Windows >>> programming these days, but don't recall having to escape the >>> backslashes in the past. >> >> It's a C thing, not a Windows thing: http://c-faq.com/osdep/dospath.html > > I guess the trauma of doing coding on DOS and Windows in the past had > completely obliterated it from my mind. :-)
As penance you have to re-read the whole of the C FAQ. Properly. And the C++ one. For good measure. ;) -- PJH http://shabbleland.myminicity.com/env
