Path: utzoo!utgpu!utstat!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!eecae!netnews.upenn.edu!rutgers!cmcl2!yale!spolsky-joel From: spolsky-joel@CS.YALE.EDU (Joel Spolsky) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: pathnames Message-ID: <50188@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> Date: 9 Feb 89 23:56:14 GMT References: <2569@pegasus.ATT.COM> <3847@cbnews.ATT.COM> <662@mks.UUCP> <10353@ut-emx.UUCP> Sender: root@yale.UUCP Reply-To: spolsky-joel@CS.YALE.EDU (Joel Spolsky) Organization: Yale University Computer Science Dept, New Haven CT 06520-2158 Lines: 15 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. Actually I noticed that if you write your program with Turbo-C it _will_ accept both kinds of slashes unless you do something to prevent it. Isn't that neat? +----------------+----------------------------------------------------------+ | Joel Spolsky | bitnet: spolsky@yalecs.bitnet uucp: ...!yale!spolsky | | | internet: spolsky@cs.yale.edu voicenet: 203-436-1483 | +----------------+----------------------------------------------------------+ #include