On Mon, 22 Apr 2013 09:35:19 +0200 (CEST)
mar...@stack.nl (Marco van de Voort) wrote:

> In our previous episode, Mattias Gaertner said:
> > It seems fpc converts under Windows \^ to ^.
> > See here:
> > 
> > http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=23294
> > 
> > Is this a feature or a bug?
> 
> No idea, but IIRC ^ is the escape char on Windows NT cmdline shell (like \ in 
> C).
> 
> So ^\ would be a non-path "\"   ?!? 
> 
> I don't know how deep it goes and if it is cmd.exe only.

C:\Users\^-^\AppData is converted to C:\Users^-^\AppData.

If ^ is the escape character then it is strange that ^\ is kept and the
\^ is not.

Mattias
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