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From: | Elf |
Subject: | Re: [Chicken-users] Bug in canonical-path? |
Date: | Tue, 28 Oct 2008 09:43:37 -0700 (PDT) |
On Tue, 28 Oct 2008, John Cowan wrote:
Elf scripsit:In Windows, \ and / are interchangeable in system calls, although the command shell, the desktop, and other file windows and dialogue boxes don't accept \ but only /.I should have said "don't accept / but only \", of course.this is not strictly true; during installation of files (eg for chicken-setup) some calls are done through the command shell.In which case the code should be specialized for that purpose.
this was the original intent.
the / notation has certain other concerns as well, mostly involving drive letter.Well, yes: a path beginning [A-Za-z]:[/\\] is absolute on Windows but not on Unix. That too is a special case.
see above.i will be adding flags to it for handling special cases at my earliest convenience.
-elf
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