Windows filenames and "/" (was Re: logtext and logfile)

[Kenneth Brody]

Quoting Nancy Palmquist (Mon, 03 Mar 2008 13:31:38 -0500):

[...]
> Look at permissions.  You need to be careful where you write stuff.
>
> Suggestion:
>
> /appl/filepro/filename/logs
>
> So logfile would be:
>
> file=getenv("PFDATA"){getenv("PFDIR"){"/filepro/"{@fi{"/logs"{@rn{","{1
>
> Same exact string works for WINDOWS, just do this
>
> file=xlate(file,"/",chr("92"))  to flip the slashes.

Unless you're passing the filename to SYSTEM (which we're not doing here),
there is no need to flip the slashes under Windows.  The forward slash
works just fine.

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