On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 04:20:52PM +0200, Ropel wrote:
> If, as the name of the column suggests, the backslash is used for 
> pathnames, why don't you bypass the problem by using normal slash (I.E: 
> "path/to/my/file")? It works well
> with new windows versions and, of course, unix-style pathnames....

This has worked since DOS 2.0. Just not on the command line because the
slash is the option indicator. But the C library and the OS always
accepted forward slashes...

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Martijn van Oosterhout   <kleptog@svana.org>   http://svana.org/kleptog/
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