At 09:57 AM 2/12/2006, Cesar Rabak wrote:
>Since the cmake is ported to the Windows platform/environment, I think it is 
>reasonable expectation of the user to have the env vars written in the native 
>(Windows) style.
>
>As such, cmake must be able to parse and process vars with spaces and 
>correctly interpreting the backslashes.
>
>As matter of fact, this should be transparent for cmake, after of all the 
>programs that make use of the information stored in these variables that have 
>to take care of the semantics of the slashes.
>
>my .01999...

Sounds good, but is there a case when you would have a \ in an environment 
variable that
you did not want converted?   What if it was not a PATH at all?   We could check
to see if it is a PATH, but what if the file or path does not exist?  

-Bill

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