Ken Dibble wrote:
Live and Learn.
I guess my limited experience (including not being a windows programmer) colored my perception.
I had never been able to get any Windows variant I was exposed to, to accept a forward slash. So much for my recall device of Unix Forward, Windows Backward.
Regards, Ken
It is the command line parsing which usually rejects (or gets confused by) paths using '/' for the obvious reason that most Windows applications use '/' as the option character. However if you quote the path, then it will often work. E.g.
dir "c:/windows"
Regards, Mark Thornton
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