From:	dcasale AT my-deja DOT com
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Subject:	Re: _fixpath bug?
Date:	Wed, 20 Sep 2000 17:33:18 GMT
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In article <8qa0im$e31$1 AT antares DOT lu DOT erisoft DOT se>,
  eplmst AT lu DOT erisoft DOT se (Martin Stromberg) wrote:
> damon AT redshift DOT com wrote:
> : I understand that _fixpath, by default, returns lower case paths
> : with UNIX-style (forward) slashes.  To change this behavior, one
> : should do something like the following:
>
> : #include <crt0.h>
>
> : int main()
> : {
> : 	_crt0_startup_flags = _CRT0_FLAG_PRESERVE_UPPER_CASE |
> : 		_CRT0_FLAG_USE_DOS_SLASHES |
> : 		_CRT0_FLAG_PRESERVE_FILENAME_CASE;
> : ... (etc.)
> : }
>
> : However, I've done this and _fixpath *still* returns paths (albeit
> : uppercase) with forward slashes.  What gives?  Is this a bug?
>
> Why do you think _CRT0_FLAG_USE_DOS_SLASHES will make _fixpath() use
> backslashes? The documentation says:
>
> `_CRT0_FLAG_USE_DOS_SLASHES'
>      If set, reverse slashes (dos-style) are preserved in `argv[0]'.
>      If not set, all reverse slashes are replaced with unix-style
>      slashes.
>
> Where does it say _fixpath() will be affected?

Woops.  I didn't read that very carefully, did I?  ^^;;

I guess I have to change the forward slashes to backslashes in the
output from _fixpath on my own, then.  *shrugs*

Damon Casale, damon AT redshift DOT com
But that's not what the documentation said last night!  Really!


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