On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 9:07 AM, Luke Benstead <kaz...@gmail.com> wrote:
> ... > > This is probably a really dumb question... but why does wine support > UNIX paths? What is the circumstance where a Windows application will > be trying to access a native file or directory? The only example I can > think of is that an app has specifically been written to be used in > Wine, in which case, shouldn't native UNIX paths be disabled by > default, and perhaps turned on with an environment variable? > > Luke. > > > I personally enjoy the ability to use UNIX paths both in calling applications with command-line arguments and in file dialogs (even if it is necessary to use the wrong slash in dialogs). I imagine that there are a lot of people that appreciate the ability to use this functionality, since you can use the "familiar paths" you do not need to be familiar with the windows drive mapping. Erich Hoover ehoo...@mines.edu
