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Jeffrey,

On 8/6/13 11:05 AM, Jeffrey Janner wrote:
> Had a programmer build a filepath using "\" instead of "/" ,
> because he's windows centric (duh).
> 
> Works great on my mostly windows deployments, but fails
> spectacularly on Unix/Linux boxes.
> 
> Is there a Java option that can force the Linux boxes to treat the 
> backslash as a forward slash?
> 
> Fixing the code for future releases, but need to get something
> working now with existing code.

Usually, the procedure is to always use / and let the Windows JVM
"convert" the file path appropriately. The reason to favor "/" instead
of "\" is because "\" has another meaning as a general-purpose escape
character.

- -chris
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