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On 13 Oct 1999 21:31:50 -0400, Ben Hyde wrote:

>Dean Gaudet <dgaudet@arctic.org> writes:
>
>> on win32, both / and \ are path separators... no?  (or is this only used
>> in situations where we've changed / to \ ?)
>> 
>> Dean
>
>I wrote that...
>
>This was distilled out of main, and it's used to get the
>program name off of what every pathname the user invoked
>it with.  Of course now that it's in APR it ought to be
>right.  "Right", presumably meaning, get the last term off
>of the pathname presuming that the pathname is in the
>syntax of the current platform.  VMS ports will suffer
>as they usually do.
>
>I don't have, nor did I look at any, doc at hand right now.
>My memory is that "/" is not a "seperator" on windows.  I
>do recall that when I once looked very hard for doc on the
>exact lexical structure of filenames I never did find it.
>I believe that they put "/" into the set of character that
>users are advised to avoid, and some UI attempts to enforce
>that, while the OS API doesn't.
>
>Of course many programs and shells are quite - ah - friendly
>about converting "/" into "\" in their UI.

Win32, OS/2 and even DOS all accept both / and \ as path separators at the
API level. It's only the command line interpreter that treats / as a switch
character.

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