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Subject: RE: Mixing / and \ path separators
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Just out of curiosity triggered by this thread:

How do I create a path or file name like <quote>& ?</quote>
?
Neither of Unix' ways: <quote>touch \&\ \?</quote> or
<quote>touch '& ?'</quote> 
nor <quote>touch '\&\ \?'</quote>  apparently work.

 Regards
 							Dieter Meinert
 

|=> -----Original Message-----
|=> From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:cgf AT redhat DOT com]
|=> Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2003 8:53 AM
|=> To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
|=> Subject: Re: Mixing / and \ path separators
|=> Importance: High
|=> 
|=> 
|=> On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 06:43:28PM +1100, Gareth Pearce
|wrote: => >> Cygwin "likes" paths with backslashes in
|them.  It now  => just wisely
|=> >> assumes that such paths are windows paths.  As I'm
|sure you know, => >> you don't use '/' to denote a UNIX
|path.
|=> >
|=> >^
|=> >meanness detected.
|=> 
|=> Actually, more like stupidity (mine) detected.  I meant
|to  => say "...you
|=> don't use '\' to denote a UNIX path".
|=> 
|=> cgf
|=> 
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