Duncan Booth wrote: > Bryan Olson wrote: > >> Duncan Booth wrote: >>> Any other Microsoft commands I try all complain about 'invalid >>> switch'. >> >> The first I noticed were their build tools. Their version of >> "make", called "nmake", and their visual studio tools will >> accept either forward or backward slashes in paths. >> > Ok, pedantically I meant the commands that come as part of the system. Most > external tools such as Microsoft's compilers have always accepted forward > slashes interchangeably with backslashes. They also usually accept '-' as > an option character interchangeably with '/'. The 'standard' commands > though seem to go to a lot of effort to reject forward slashes in paths, > and the CD command seems to be the only one where this usage gets through > the net.
That seems right, though I don't think Microsoft is deliberately being difficult. They never put much effort into the command line; they were trying to imitate the the Mac GUI more than the Unix shell. I just tried, and on XP the "explorer" will accept forward slashes, immediately re-displaying them as backslashes. -- --Bryan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
