[Q]How to append paths in a platform-independent way?

[Oren Tirosh]

On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 09:00:48PM -0800, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> sdhyok fed this fish to the penguins on Tuesday 01 April 2003 07:46 pm:
> 
> > How to do the following jobs in a platform-independent way?
> > 
> > path = /home/sdhyok
> 
>         This is already platform dependent... it doesn't mean the same thing 
> in Windows.

Actually, it does. Windows accepts slash-separated paths just fine at the 
API level. Even mixed use works ok. The command processor and other 
command-line utilities require backslashes because they use forward slash 
for options. 

MacOS (not OS X) is probably the only major OS that does not accept 
slashes (any Mac owners out there can confirm that?)

    Oren