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> 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. And thats just what I meant to end with before hitting that send button. *Slap* Elfyn elfyn@exposure.org.uk --- message from Robert Collins <rbcollins@cygwin.com> attached: _____________________________________________________________ www.smokeJet.com - Free UK Internet Services _____________________________________________________________ Select your own custom email address for FREE! Get you@yourchoice.com w/No Ads, 6MB, POP & more! http://www.everyone.net/selectmail?campaign=tag
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- From: Robert Collins <rbcollins at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Cc: LA Walsh <law at tlinx dot org>
- Date: 06 Jan 2003 19:36:30 +1100
- Subject: RE: Repost, different list...File::Spec, Cygwin, Syntactic vs.Semantic path analysis
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- References: <20030106083008.4C1334385@sitemail.everyone.net>
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>.Attachment: signature.asc
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