Slashes in DOS/Windows paths (was Re: issue with ddefine on win2k3)

[Kenneth Brody]

Quoting Kenneth Brody (Tue, 22 May 2007 10:00:33 -0400):

> Quoting Jay R. Ashworth (Tue, 22 May 2007 09:38:10 -0400):
[...]
> > Cause, "allowed forward slashes" is open to debate.  So far as I know.
>
> Since MS-DOS 2.0 first supported directory trees, it has allowed
> either "/" or "\" as a path separator.
[...]

Also, as to "open to debate", I can tell you that filePro has always
used forward slashes in the "/filepro/..." and "/fp/..." part of the
filenames.  Only the part derived from PFPROG/PFDATA/PFDIR variables
could be backslashes, and only if the user/admin used backslashes in
setting the values.

For example, PFDATA=C: and PFDIR=\appl would result in filePro using
the name "C:\appl/filepro/filename/map" to access the map.  This has
always been the case, from the very first release of filePro back in
1983 or 1984 through today.

[Note: brick text acheived by pure chance.]

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