Migrating filePro to Windows Server2003 ?

[Kenneth Brody]

Quoting Bill Campbell (Mon, 7 Nov 2005 17:43:12 -0800):
[...]
> >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.

To clarify further, it is the DOS API (such as it is) that accepts both
forward and backslashes.  The same is true for the Windows API.  It was
the application level (command.com and the other MS-supplied programs)
at which forward slashes were usurped as the flag indicator.  Any
application that didn't explicity forbid forward slashes would work
just fine.  For example, filePro 1.0 could use "-p /path/to/file".

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