issue with ddefine on win2k3

[Bob Stockler]

Jay R. Ashworth wrote (on Tue, May 22, 2007 at 09:38:10AM -0400):

| 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.

FWIW, NcFTP on Windows XP allows me to change the current local
directory by using either forward or back slashes,

And from a command prompt in Windows, if I'm at C:\ and execute
"chdir /windows" my prompt becomes "C:\WINDOWS".

Bob

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