issue with ddefine on win2k3

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 07:55:31PM -0400, Kenneth Brody wrote:
> > I'm never clear on when DOS fp will translat pathname slashes and when
> > it won't, either...
> 
> Well, this is the Windows version, not the DOS version.  That, and the
> fact that MS-DOS and Windows have always allowed forward slashes, means
> that filePro doesn't need to "translate pathname slashes".

So, let me get this straight: instead of one programmer knowing when
it's necessary to have a certain direction of slash for things to work
right, we'd rather have 20,000 programmers need to guess?  :-)

Cause, "allowed forward slashes" is open to debate.  So far as I know.

Cheers,
-- jra
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