Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mitel!sce!cognos!geovision!pt
From: pt@geovision.uucp (Paul Tomblin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: pathnames
Summary: "/ > \"
Message-ID: <551@geovision.UUCP>
Date: 14 Feb 89 17:19:55 GMT
References: <2569@pegasus.ATT.COM> <3847@cbnews.ATT.COM> <662@mks.UUCP> <10353@ut-emx.UUCP> <1623@stratus.UUCP>
Reply-To: pt@geovision.UUCP (Paul Tomblin)
Organization: GeoVision Corp, Ottawa, Canada
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In article <1623@stratus.UUCP> gbs@stratus.UUCP (George B. Smith) writes:
>>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. 
>
>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.
I don't know if it is true of 2.0, but turboC 1.5 handled either syntax
no matter what your switchar was.  I was typing in the following to
TurboC for a few days before I realized that I had been lucky that it had
worked:
	tcc -I/gvc/includes -I/turboc/includes  dba.c
or even
	tcc -I/gvc/includes -I\turboc\includes c:/csource/dba.c

Holey metacharacters, batman.

I had tried a simple switchar program for a while, thinking it would
ease my daily transition between DOS and Unix, but found that MOST
commercial programs I tried, and most dos utils, don't understand it.
Sigh...

>...When I ported the BSD indent(1) program to DOS...
Did you do this?  CAN I HAVE IT?!

Thanks...

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