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From: Andrew DeFaria <Andrew AT DeFaria DOT com>
Subject: Re: posix and win32 enviornment
Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2003 23:31:35 -0700
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Igor Pechtchanski wrote:

> On Mon, 7 Jul 2003, Andrew DeFaria wrote:
>
>> 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:" :-).
>>
> Upping the level of nitpicking (and off-topicness) here, I don't see 
> where Shankar assumes that the Windows installation is WinNT. In fact, 
> Win98 will happily understand (and access, if it exists) the 
> /WinNT/System32
> directory (or file, as may well be). The only thing assumed here is 
> that the directory is on the C: drive. :-)

Well there's no /WinNT on my system!



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