Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
That depends entirely on your point of view. Linux knows no drive letters. ':' is a valid character in a filename, and therefor cannot act as a drive separator character.
hehehe... To really screw with a Windows user, I tried the following and it worked!
touch 'c:\myfile.txt' Under linux it actually create the file called 'c:\myfile.txt' :/tmp$ ls -l drwxr-xr-x 3 graemeg graemeg 4096 2008-05-21 11:43 app -rw-r--r-- 1 graemeg graemeg 0 2008-05-21 13:14 c:\myfile.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 graemeg graemeg 0 2008-05-21 13:12 c:myfile.txt -rw------- 1 graemeg graemeg 607 2008-05-21 11:48 code-1.pp -rw------- 1 graemeg graemeg 607 2008-05-21 11:48 code.pp That's nuts! :-) Regards, - Graeme - _______________________________________________________ fpGUI - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using Free Pascal http://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/ _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel