On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 at 15:11:11, Dilwyn Jones wrote:
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>> No, forward slashes are never used on DOS/Windows. ".\" is current
>> directory, but it should be redundant as everything defaults to the
>> current directory anyway.
>Ah, sorry, it must be web page editors etc which use ./
>I can never remember which is which.
Unix and Linux.
Websites are mainly run under Unix/Linux, hence the forward slash (/) in
URLs.
The \ from windows is a real hassle, as backslash is a standard
programming escape character (in perl and others).
Windows paths used in say perl have to be:
c:\\path\\filename
c:\path\filename would get parsed as "c:pathfilename"
A real pain.
... but that is how I can remember it (8-)#
Tony
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