From: Justin Johnson <justinjohnson@...>
Date: 2005-12-30T06:51:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Path Separator and Windows

Bob Showalter wrote:
> Justin Johnson wrote:
>> Is there a reason File::SEPARATOR isn't set to \ to begin with for 
>> Windows?  Even if the Windows API accepts a /, \ is standard for the 
>> Windows command line and executing commands with / in paths passed as 
>> args fails.  Of course I can just do my own substitutions, but it seems 
>> like this could be improved.
> 
> I'm not sure why it works the way it does; perhaps Matz will weigh in.
> If you look at the source (file.c), the whole business is really quite
> messy.
> 
> How did DOS (and then Windows) ever decide to use backslash I wonder?
> 
> And a pox on "drive letters" while we're at it! :-)
> 
> The Unix approach seems so much more logical to me...

No argument there.  :-)

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