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Date:	Thu, 13 Mar 2003 02:53:20 -0500
From:	Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: Mixing / and \ path separators
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On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 06:43:28PM +1100, Gareth Pearce wrote:
>> Cygwin "likes" paths with backslashes in them.  It now just wisely
>> assumes that such paths are windows paths.  As I'm sure you know,
>> you don't use '/' to denote a UNIX path.
>
>^
>meanness detected.

Actually, more like stupidity (mine) detected.  I meant to say "...you
don't use '\' to denote a UNIX path".

cgf

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