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From: "John M. Aldrich" <fighteer AT cs DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: fopen problem.
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 1996 18:37:03 -0700
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Lawrence Kirby wrote:
> 
> In article <3219B4F3 DOT 2A41 AT iti-oh DOT com> bjs AT iti-oh DOT com "Brian Sayatovic" writes:
> >You sure can.  On most UNIX file systems, you would use
> >"/path/name/file.name".  The only difference is that most UNIX operating
> >systems use a forward slash instead of a backslash.
> 
> All Unix OSs do, and DOS accepts forward slashes too. It is only
> COMMAND.COM that requires backslashes.

Which again just goes to show just what wonderful morons the Micro$oft
programmers are...  or rather, the people who tell those programmers what
to do.  I sometimes wonder if the term "user satisfaction" is even in
Bill Gates's vocabulary.

John

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