Migrating filePro to Windows Server2003 ?

Kenneth Brody kenbrody at bestweb.net
Mon Nov 7 17:10:06 PST 2005


Quoting Jeroen Elias (Tue, 8 Nov 2005 00:39:19 +0100):

[...]
> There might be a slight problem in your filePro code, and that is
> references to file paths. On Unix systems, this normally will have
> the "/" character as a directory delimiter, but on Windows systems,
> this normally would be a backslash ("\").
> Perhaps Windows is intelligent enough through all the years to
> understand the original desired paths, but I don't know for sure.
[...]

Ever since MS-DOS 2.0 added subdirectories, it has accepted forward
slashes for path separators.  Unless you are shelling out to the
command prompt via SYSTEM, which introduces a whole new set of
compatibility issues unrelated to filePro, forward slashes will not
be an issue.

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