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

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:
...
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Using Microsoft software, I often boggle.

- tye (but my friends call me "Tye")

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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
On 95 it is even weirder, using old faithful: `C:\>c:\temp\test C:\>REM Hello tye! C:\>c:/temp/test C:\>` [download] No error but no run neither! cheers tachyon s&&rsenoyhcatreve&&&s&n.+t&"$'$`$\"$\&"&ee&&y&srve&&d&&print	[reply] [d/l]