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RE: Mixing / and \ path separators
- From: Ross Smith <rosss at pharos dot co dot nz>
- To: "'cygwin at cygwin dot com'" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 08:46:13 +1300
- Subject: RE: Mixing / and \ path separators
> From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:cgf-cygwin at cygwin dot com]
>
> On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 11:08:27PM +0100, Anton Ertl wrote:
> >
> >If so, how should I deal with path names where parts of the path come
> >from ordinary windows users?
>
> Either tell your Windows users to use forward slashes, tell them to
> specify the path name using windows specs like f:\cygwin\foo\bar,
> or change the backslashes to slashes.
Wouldn't cygwin_conv_to_posix_path() and its relatives be a more
general solution?
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Ross Smith ...................... Pharos Systems, Auckland, New Zealand
"It's never too soon to start planning, and, in fact,
it's usually too late." -- Chad Orzel
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