Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Chris Herborth Subject: Re: Python os.path.join inconsistency? Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2004 10:53:28 -0400 Organization: QNX Software Systems Ltd. Lines: 22 Message-ID: References: <413384A1.7080509@alltel.net> <20040830195455.GC15021@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> <4133873F.8090606@alltel.net> <41355B27.6010301@x-ray.at> Reply-To: cherborth@qnx.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: mobius.qnx.com User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.3 (Windows/20040803) In-Reply-To: <41355B27.6010301@x-ray.at> X-IsSubscribed: yes Reini Urban wrote: > Ken Dibble schrieb: > >> I guess my limited experience (including not being a windows programmer) >> colored my perception. >> >> I had never been able to get any Windows variant I was exposed to, >> to accept a forward slash. So much for my recall device of >> Unix Forward, Windows Backward. > > Win95 derivates accept only backward, WinNT since always forward slashes > also. This is rather off-topic, but even DOS would properly handle paths with forward slashes in commands that didn't choke trying to parse them into arguments (for example, Info-ZIP's zip/unzip or POV-Ray). This is an undocumented feature ever since DOS implemented directories. -- Chris Herborth (cherborth@qnx.com) Never send a monster to do the work of an evil scientist. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/