On Wed, 2009-08-26 at 12:52 -0700, John R Pierce wrote: > Sam Mason wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 02:55:37PM +0000, Ken Smith wrote: > > > >> I also noted > >> that if I try to run from the commandline that you use '/' in some of the > >> program paths causing the OS to say it cannot find the file - "C:/Program > >> Files/Java/jdk1.5.0_16/jre/bin/java.exe". > >> > > > > I'm pretty sure that Windows has known about forward slashes being path > > delimiters since Windows 95 and the start of Win32. I know I normally > > use forward slashes in XP when I'm at work! > > > > > they work in the APIs but not in the CMD command line shell, as it > expects / to be the command option seperrator (much as - is used in > Unix-like systems)
That's very program specific - it's part of the program's command line parsing and argument processing, not cmd.exe / CreateProcess(...)'s handling of the command line arguments. Most Windows utilities, including command-line tools, handle forward-slash paths quite fine. It's just a few nasty old DOS-like ones that're a problem ... but that does include many of the basic cmd.exe built-in commands :-( -- Craig Ringer -- Sent via pgsql-bugs mailing list (pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-bugs
