On Thu, 30 Aug 2007 07:28:52 -0400, Steve Holden wrote:
> Bruno Desthuilliers wrote:
>> Steve Holden a écrit :
>> Indeed. But I doubt a path starting with 'C:' will work fine on a
>> unix-like environment anyway !-)
>
> Just to be contrarian:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/Projects/python.org/build
> $ ls C:/Steve/
> Apache SANSsecurityOverview.pdf
> Apache2 SQLServer.txt
> ...
> Resume.odt todo.txt
> Resume.pdf untitled-1.py
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/Projects/python.org/build
>
> That's Cygwin, of course. Is that sufficiently "unix-like"? Though I
> have to admit that the different utilities all take different approaches
> to the use of Windows paths, and some just won't take them at all.
Even on Unix it shouldn't be a problem on most file systems to create a
directory named 'C:'
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ mkdir C:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ touch C:/test.txt
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -l C:
total 0
-rw-r--r-- 1 bj bj 0 2007-08-30 14:38 test.txt
:-)
Ciao,
Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch
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