Migrating filePro to Windows Server2003 ?

[Bill Campbell]

On Mon, Nov 07, 2005, Kenneth Brody wrote:
>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.

To clarify a bit, the C function, open() accepts proper path
names with forward slashes.  It's COMMAND.COM that uses the
bastardized back slashes.

Bill
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