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On Mon, 2003-01-06 at 19:30, Elfyn McBratney wrote: > Although the win32 api supports both one takes more work as paths > containing forward-slashes are converted to back-slashes*. I know this > is being petty but if different style paths cause problems surely it > would make sense to follow the standard the OS follows? Right, so: Perl for Cygwin uses "/" Perl for win32 uses "\" and ":". Seems pretty straight forward to me. Cygwin may be 'just a partial posix layer', but if you are compiling for it, you should use "/" delimited paths. Rob -- GPG key available at: <http://users.bigpond.net.au/robertc/keys.txt>.
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