Re: / vs. \ in Win32 (Re: Glob on Win32: porting 5.005 to 5.6)

Even command.exe accepts / as a path separator.

If command.com accepts / then why does it fail in the last case?

C:\>type test.bat
REM Hello tye!
C:\>type .\test.bat
REM Hello tye!
C:\>type ./test.bat
Invalid switch - /TEST.BAT

C:\>test.bat

C:\>REM Hello tye!

C:\>.\test.bat

C:\>REM Hello tye!

C:\>./test.bat
Bad command or file name

C:\>
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cheers

tachyon

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(tye)Re: / vs. \ in Win32 (Re: Glob on Win32: porting 5.005 to 5.6) by tye (Sage) on Sep 04, 2001 at 19:46 UTC
That was the type of thing I had tested before but testing it now shows command.exe not supporting it. It appears that I am correct that command.exe supports / as a directory path separator, it just doesn't always support it: `C:\>c:/temp/cleanpath.bat Cleaning user-specific PATH: ...` [download] Using Microsoft software, I often boggle. - tye (but my friends call me "Tye")	[reply] [d/l]
Re: (tye)Re: / vs. \ in Win32 (Re: Glob on Win32: porting 5.005 to 5.6) by tachyon (Chancellor) on Sep 04, 2001 at 19:52 UTC
My testing was on 95, you are probably using NT/ME/2000 I suspect? cheers tachyon s&&rsenoyhcatreve&&&s&n.+t&"$'$`$\"$\&"&ee&&y&srve&&d&&print	[reply]
(tye)Re2: / vs. \ in Win32 (Re: Glob on Win32: porting 5.005 to 5.6) by tye (Sage) on Sep 04, 2001 at 20:20 UTC
Actually, I meant to be discussing cmd.exe not command.(exe\|com) and so Win95 doesn't count (since it doesn't have cmd.exe). But your testing matched my testing on both WinNT and Win2K: "./test.bat" and "temp/test.bat" didn't work. But "c:/temp/test.bat" did. So even cmd.exe doesn't support / as well as it supports \, but it does support / as a directory path separator in some cases. - tye (but my friends call me "Tye")	[reply]
Re: (tye)Re2: / vs. \ in Win32 (Re: Glob on Win32: porting 5.005 to 5.6) by tachyon (Chancellor) on Sep 04, 2001 at 20:27 UTC
Re: Re: / vs. \ in Win32 (Re: Glob on Win32: porting 5.005 to 5.6) by perchance (Monk) on Sep 05, 2001 at 10:19 UTC
Microsoft showing what they really think of Slashdot? :) I get another error, not 'Bad Command...' but instead: `'.' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.` [download] I suppose it's because I'm on Win2K, but it does seem to give a clue as to how Windows parses the command line... --- perchance	[reply] [d/l]