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On Thursday, August 2, 2012 12:24:41 PM UTC-7, Hans-Bernhard Bröker wrote:
> On 02.08.2012 01:51, K.J.Williams wrote:
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> > But I am using this in MS-DOS (under W95), and the paths in each of
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> > my code files at the top (in RHIDE) have been inverted - the path
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> > slashes of my file paths are like Linux ...
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> 
> Yeah ... so what?  How's that a problem?
 

IMHO, it is incorrect to have '\' switched to '/' in MS-DOS. The problem can easily confuse me to making accidental mistakes in my file paths when I import program source code files and their file directories from Linux to MS-DOS, and vice versa - especially when Linux is case sensitive. When I am working with hundreds of files and I am switching between those two OS types, to build an identical program in ANSI C, I haven't got the time waste over that detail which will hold me up checking over the whole set of files. Yes I know it means the same thing in either system, but as a programmer I have to pay attention to these details. I thought I was entering in bad file path syntax in RHIDE.  

Now do you see that as a problem?    

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