Re: [Chicken-users] CMake/MinGW build 325 is using wrong (Unix) filename separator

[John Cowan]

Ian Oversby scripsit:

> I thought Windows could use either forward or backward slashes 
> for filenames.

True at the level of system calls (and therefore from within Chicken
code), decidedly *not* true at the level of batch files, where / indicates
a switch (a hangover from DOS, which borrowed it from CP/M, and ultimately
from various DEC operating systems such as RT-11, OS/8, and TOPS-10).

Mini-rant: standard Windows dialogue boxes won't accept slashes either,
though there is no reason why they shouldn't.

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