Re^5: jar like feature

Windows generally accepts forward slashes in addition to the canonical back slashes;

oops, right! See, I told you I should I have used File::Spec! (Actually, I did include '/' in the list of seperators.)

Windows does not use colons -- that's MacOS.

What about c:test.txt??? True, it can't be used to seperate directories, but I never said it could.

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Re^6: jar like feature by Anonymous Monk on Sep 22, 2004 at 09:03 UTC
What about c:test.txt??? True, it can't be used to seperate directories, but I never said it could. Yes, you did (empasis added): I wasn't refering to $0, but to the path seperator. In unix, it's '/'. In Windows, it can be '\' and ':'. The colon is the logical disk separator (required at least for absolute local filenames). In the case of a:file the directory separator can be optionally dropped (and the latest versions of the NT command interpreter can even handle things like disk:dir\file).	[reply]

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Re^6: jar like feature
by Anonymous Monk on Sep 22, 2004 at 09:03 UTC

What about c:test.txt??? True, it can't be used to seperate directories, but I never said it could.

I wasn't refering to $0, but to the path seperator. In unix, it's '/'. In Windows, it can be '\' and ':'.

The colon is the logical disk separator (required at least for absolute local filenames). In the case of a:file the directory separator can be optionally dropped (and the latest versions of the NT command interpreter can even handle things like disk:dir\file).

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