Subject: Re: posix and win32 enviornment
From: Andrew DeFaria <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2003 14:48:38 -0700

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!

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

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