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Re: Mixing / and \ path separators
On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 08:46:13AM +1300, Ross Smith wrote:
>> 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?
Good point. It probably is, if that option is available.
cgf
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