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

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Confusious (Kenneth Brody) say:
> 
> 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.

Does fP actually invoke something that cares?  I ask because perl's
system() doesn't require a translation of the slashes.  I don't know how
the two are comparatively implemented though.

mark->
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