Some more notes

[Jorgen Grahn]

On Sun, 24 Oct 2004 18:58:06 -0400, Peter Hansen <peter at engcorp.com> wrote:
> Jorgen Grahn wrote:
>> On Sat, 23 Oct 2004 10:01:00 -0400, Peter Hansen <peter at engcorp.com> wrote:
>>>That's not necessary in almost all cases.  Windows happily(*)
>>>accepts forward slashes in all system calls.  The only place
>>>it does not is in the *shell* (aka command.com and cmd.exe).
>> 
>> IIRC, forward slashes have been acceptable since way back in early MS-DOS --
>> although someone somewhere on Usenet suggested that Microsoft have never
>> commited to keeping it that way.
> 
> I know that there was an un(der)documented control somewhere that
> allowed one to change even DOS to accept hyphens in place of
> forward slashes as the "switch" indicator for command line options,
> but this is the first time I've heard it suggested that even
> the DOS "APIs" (I use the term loosely... the interrupt routines
> barely qualify for that title :-) ) would allow forward slashes
> as the Windows APIs (always?) have.
> 
> Does anyone have a reference for that?

[ greps his ~/News/* ]

Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++.moderated
Message-ID: <d6652001.0311100414.3e5f3635 at posting.google.com>

  MS-DOS operating system requests (e.g. open), and those of Windows, have
  always, from the very first, accepted either '\' or '/' as a directory
  separator, and still do today.  There is really not the slightest need to
  use '\' for this in a string constant.

... followed by a lot of other interesting stuff.

/Jorgen

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