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Date:	Thu, 17 Jan 2002 09:33:21 +0200 (IST)
From:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To:	Charles Sandmann <sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu>
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Subject:	Re: ls weirdness on root drive
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On Wed, 16 Jan 2002, Charles Sandmann wrote:

> > I thought fixpath converts all backslashes to forward slashes.  Does't 
> > it?
> 
> Either it doesn't or lstat puts them back someplace.  At that point
> in the code a debug statement showed them sometimes forward, sometimes
> backward

Must be some bug (or maybe some other code did something to what
_fixpath returned).  _fixpath should _never_ return backslashes in the
file name, quite a few programs, especially in Fileutils, depend on
that for correct operation.

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