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From: vg55611@ihuxy.ATT.COM (Gopal)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: pathnames
Message-ID: <2847@ihuxy.ATT.COM>
Date: 11 Feb 89 22:36:59 GMT
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In article <1623@stratus.UUCP> gbs@stratus.UUCP (George B. Smith) writes:

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>I have to whole heartedly agree with Gerry on this one.  I would like
>to ask all software authors, commercial and public domain, please make
>sure your programs can handle either the forward slash or back slash
>character as the separator.

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!And it is very easy to do, as I said before.  All a program has to do
!is find out the current setting of the switch char.  This is a trivial
!task for a program.  In fact, in Turbo C v2.0, in the file getopt.c
!supplied by Borland, there is the 3 lines necessary to get the current
!switch char.  Then, if the current switch char is '-', then

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There is an even simpler method: allow only "-" to be used as the
switchar in your programs, and then whenever you read a pathname from
the  user, substitute all occurences of "/" with "\".

Venu P. Gopal
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