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Date:	Sat, 25 Mar 2000 10:52:15 +0100
From:	Corinna Vinschen <corinna AT vinschen DOT de>
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Subject:	Re: Cygwin directory slash problem?
References:	<001b01bf9609$33099000$0400a8c0 AT wcy>

> Me in Reflection wrote:
> For some reason, my installation of Cygwin does not accept the
> backslash (\) but only accepts the forward slash as in Linux (/) at
> the bash prompt or at the gcc input. Is this the default behaviour
> that cannot be changed? Or is there somewhere I can change this? I

Either use quoting

    '\foo\bar'

or double backslashes

    \\foo\\bar

Corinna

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