From:	Charles Sandmann <sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: My NT installation wants '\' in the dir command
Date:	Thu, 07 Nov 2002 16:45:57 CST
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> However on an NT machine, it appears to want back slashes('\') versus
> forward slashes ('/') for directory names.

This is probably not the problem.

> When I compile a simple hello world program, the W2000 works great, the NT
> says it can't find file c:/djgpp/include/otherincludefile.h.  I do a dir on
> c:\djgpp\include\otherincludefile.h and it *is* there.

If it has a long name (over 8.3 characters) you will either need to use
the short name or install the long file name TSR.  Read the FAQ, and
get v2misc/ntlfn08b.zip (from Simtel) to enable long file names under 
Windows NT.

If you can prove it's a problem with / instead of \, I'd be interested in
a simple example which shows the problem.

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