Thanks Chris. Seems the neatest solution to some of my besetting issues. My original questions stand.
On Sun, 28 Apr 2019 at 20:25, chris burke <[email protected]> wrote: > > But just sometimes for a cross-platform release you have to deal with > backslashes. Notably when working with 4!:3 . > > Just use jpathsep on any foreign that returns backslash on Windows, e.g. > > jpathsep each 4!:3'' > > No need then to check IFWIN. > > On Sun, Apr 28, 2019 at 9:01 AM Ian Clark <[email protected]> wrote: > > > That's what I do, Robert. But just sometimes for a cross-platform release > > you have to deal with backslashes. Notably when working with 4!:3 . > > > > I'm hoping to hear from someone using J on a (non Win) platform that does > > not use '/'. Otherwise I shall carry on assuming the IFWIN_z_ flag is the > > only one I have to inspect. > > > > BTW: am I right that if any of IFWINCE IFWINE IFWOW64 is 1 then IFWIN=1 > > too? > > > > On Sun, 28 Apr 2019 at 07:40, 'Robert Raschke' via Programming < > > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Hi Ian, > > > > > > it has been quite a while since I've actively used Windows. But I've > been > > > under the impression that backslashes were only needed in the "shell". > > > Whenever I was programming in C or Lua or J, I always used forward > > slashes > > > as the directory delimiter on Windows and everything worked correctly. > > > Maybe give that a try? > > > > > > Cheers, > > > Robby > > > > > > > > > > > > On Sun, 28 Apr 2019 02:11 Ian Clark, <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > Is MS Windows the only present-day platform that does *not* use slash > > (/) > > > > as a path separator for accessing files? > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > For information about J forums see > http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
