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From: nather@ut-emx.UUCP (Ed Nather)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: pathnames
Message-ID: <10353@ut-emx.UUCP>
Date: 9 Feb 89 16:25:08 GMT
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Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
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In article <662@mks.UUCP>, wheels@mks.UUCP (Gerry Wheeler) writes:
> If I may, I'd like to make a request of you software authors out there
> -- please write your programs so they will handle either type of slash
> in pathnames.  It would make life easier for many people. 

It would indeed.  Most of the MS-DOS utilities will accept either one,
but "subst" will not, and both MSC and Borland's linker demand backslashes.
A recent conversation about Borland's new debugger, which also demands
backslashes, got the helpful reply

"Well, OS2 doesn't allow it, so get used to backslashes."


-- 
Ed Nather
Astronomy Dept, U of Texas @ Austin