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Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2003 00:47:06 -0800 (PST)
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Subject: RE: Repost, different list...File::Spec, Cygwin, Syntactic vs.
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> Right, so:
> Perl for Cygwin uses "/"
> Perl for win32 uses "\" and ":".
>
> Seems pretty straight forward to me.
>
> Cygwin may be 'just a partial posix layer', but if you are compiling > for it, you should use "/" delimited paths.

And thats just what I meant to end with before hitting that send button. *Slap*

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On Mon, 2003-01-06 at 19:30, Elfyn McBratney wrote:

> Although the win32 api supports both one takes more work as paths
> containing forward-slashes are converted to back-slashes*. I know this
> is being petty but if different style paths cause problems surely it
> would make sense to follow the standard the OS follows?

Right, so:
Perl for Cygwin uses "/"
Perl for win32 uses "\" and ":".

Seems pretty straight forward to me.

Cygwin may be 'just a partial posix layer', but if you are compiling for
it, you should use "/" delimited paths.

Rob
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