On 6/17/2010 7:26 PM, Andrew Clarke wrote: > Not sure what you mean here, but it's merely an issue of writing the > program literal in Icon code. Windows supports / in paths, in fact > this "feature" of Windows has been around from day 1 of MS-DOS 2.0, > long before Windows was a twinkle in Bill Gates wallet.
That's not quite true. As a default, MS-DOS 2.0 and later used '/' as the command line switch character, and '\' as the directory separator. MS-DOS 2.0+ did have undocumented DOS functions for getting / setting both the switch character and the directory separator character. DOS ports of Unix utilities, such as the MKS toolkit, took advantage of these undocumented calls to use '-' for switches and '/' for the directory separator. Unfortunately, support for these undocumented calls disappeared in the last few versions of MS-DOS. As far as I know, Windows does nothing to support using '/' as a directory separator. Many newer applications do use '-' for switches, however. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo _______________________________________________ Unicon-group mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unicon-group
