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Date:	Tue, 08 Jul 2003 07:28:50 -0700
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From:	Randall R Schulz <rschulz AT sonic DOT net>
Subject:	Re: posix and win32 enviornment
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Andrew,

At 14:48 2003-07-07, Andrew DeFaria wrote:
>Shankar Unni wrote:
>
>>Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>>
>>>[...] you'll be using the MinGW libraries, and your  program will 
>>>not understand POSIX paths (i.e., you'll have to use Win32  ones).
>>
>>Well, to be totally, utterly nitpicky, I believe "/WinNT/System32" is 
>>a valid POSIX filename which will be understood by Win32 programs as 
>>well (assuming that their current drive is "C:" :-).
>
>And also assuming that your Windows installation is in WinNT. With XP 
>that's C:\Windows!

For Windows 2000 the directory name is also "/WinNT" or "/WINNT".


>(Hey you were the one that started this "totally, utterly nitpicky" 
>stuff :-) )

And it ain't over yet.

%SystemRoot% need not be on the "C:" drive. On my system, it's on "D:", e.g.


Randall Schulz 


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