Peter & Hal, Thanks for the explanations. I use Firefox, so I guess it's a windows thing and not just IE.
I am also familiar with regular expressions although I don't use Unix/Linux. It is useful for open office searches and a few utils that I have collected or programmed over the last few decades. Raj >That is an artifact of IE on Windows. >According to RFC 1738, URLs use the '/' to separate components of a >hierarchy. >Because MS-DOS (and therefor Windows...) uses '\' as a path separator, >people using Windows will type the wrong separator in an URL. >That is then 'fixed' by IE, instead of educating the user that the wrong >separator is used... >Problem is that people also use this wrong separator in html files, >resulting in broken images/links :-( > >Also result of the difference in path separator between Unix and Windows: >At my previous company a Sun workstation running Solaris was used as the >main controller for the testbench and product, while a lot of people used >Windows on the desktop. >Sometimes I found files such as '\home\user\datafiles\bla\testresults.txt' >on the machine, using the wrong separator. >That PC user of course not understanding why the result file was not in >his/her home directory :-) > >Greetings, >Pieter. > -- Raj, VU2ZAP Bangalore, India. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.