<quote>"You do know that Win32 systems can use forward slashes, right? c:/windows/temp is valid."</quote>
This is no longer true. Win2K does not support the forward slash anymore. It assumes that you are refering to a flag of somekind and bombs out with an error.

UPDATE: Since KM does not believe me that Win2K will bomb I went back to my W2K box and ran a simple test. I opened a command prompt at the C:\ level and called
dir c:\perl5
    and
dir c:/perl5
and what-do-you-know! The first method (backslash) returned the contents of the perl5 directory and the second method (forward-slash) generated the error:

Parameter format not correct - "perl5".

I hope this is sufficient information for you KM.

In reply to RE: RE: slash converter by Adam
in thread slash converter by Simplicus

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