On 2020-05-26 16:52, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
On Tue, 26 May 2020 16:22:27 +0100, Ben Bacarisse <ben.use...@bsb.me.uk>
declaimed the following:
I think it is. The picture is messy on Windows (because of the drive
letter) but absolute paths are usually taken to be those that start with
a path separator.
The drive letter is only required if one needs to access something that
is not on the "currently logged drive". Compare:
[snip]
I'd also like to point out that the nasty "\\" is not needed. Windows
API understands "/" -- it is only the command line "DOS" shell that
requires back-slash (since / is used for command options, Powershell is
happy with / since options are prefixed with - ).
Dialog windows, e.g. Open and Save dialogs, also require backslashes.
[snip]
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