From:	Damian Yerrick <Bullcr_pd_yerrick AT hotmail DOT comRemoveBullcr_p>
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Subject:	Re: _fixpath bug?
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On Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:57:13 GMT, damon AT redshift DOT com wrote:

>I'm working on a proprietary file compression program

Why not just use zlib or bzip2 (non-copylefted free software lossless
data compression libraries)?
  http://www.info-zip.org/pub/infozip/zlib/
  http://sources.redhat.com/bzip2/

>for an emergency OS recovery package

Oh, a backup program.  Continue.

>and I've run across a problem with _fixpath.  I'm porting my code from
>MSVC 1.52 and I'd rather not have to change all of my backslashes to
>forward slashes in the directory parsing code unless I absolutely have to.

search for \\ and replace with /
is it that tough?

>I understand that _fixpath, by default, returns lower case paths with
>UNIX-style (forward) slashes.

short answer: It's not a bug; it's a feature. ;-)
long answer:
This type of behavior fits into the UNIX framework around which the C
language was built (even though _fixpath() itself isn't defined in the
POSIX standard) and makes your backup program a bit more portable to
other systems.

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