From: papresco@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Paul Prescod) Subject: Re: Absolute file-path under bash (cygwin32) 17 Apr 1997 22:28:33 -0700 Approved: cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <33567BE3.FEAE7F5.cygnus.gnu-win32@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca> References: <199704170243.TAA05434@tcp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.0b3 [en] (Win95; I) Original-To: scott@statsci.com Original-CC: Hawkeye , jeffdb@netzone.com, gnu-win32@cygnus.com X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com Scott Blachowicz wrote: > Yeah...by the time the string gets to a file path manipulation function, why > not just treat both "/" and "\" as being equivalent separators? Because who wants to rewrite every Unix application that uses its own file path manipulation functions? I would love to be told that doing file path manipulation using strtok and strcmp is rare, but I would be surprised if that is the case. Paul Prescod - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".