Re: [Gnump3d-users] Re: Windows Configuration (can't figure out the slashes)

[Aaron Brown]

I haven't run gnump3d on Windows, but I know it's written in perl for 
linux, and I know from having written perl programs for Windows in the 
past that, long story short, you should be able to use forward slashes 
as directory separators.

Windows uses backslash ( \ ) as the directory separator, but this is 
used as a special character in every other operating system on earth, 
and in every iterative programming language I've ever seen (including 
Windows ones).

To make things easier, Windows perl allows you to use forward slash as 
the directory separator on Windows, primarily to make perl programs more 
easily portable between systems.  It does an internal translation 
whenever the program runs so you don't have to worry about it. Web 
browsers also do the same internal conversion. If you use Firefox and do 
a File... Open command to open up a jpeg in your web browser, look at 
the URL in the address bar, and you'll see forward slashes there, too.

Your best bet is to use forward slashes for every directory path. 
Another thing that may be necessary (again, I've never run gnump3d on 
Windows) is to put " " around any path name that has a space in it. 
Spaces have a weird history in computer filesystems, so it's usually 
safest to put quotes around any directory or filename that has a space 
anywhere in it.  Like so:
some_directory = "C:/media/My Music"

Hope this helps,

 - Aaron

Brian Shepard wrote:
> I hope someone might have some insight on this.  I'll include an example 
> of what I'm talking about from GNUMP3d 2.9 final's default conf.win.in 
> <http://conf.win.in> file:
>
> root               = C:/mp3
> logfile            = C:/gnump3d2/logs/access.log
> errorlog           = C:/gnump3d2/logs/error.log
> stats_program      = C:\gnump3d2\bin\gnump3d-top.bat
> index_program      = C:\gnump3d2\bin\gnump3d-index.bat
> template_directory = C:/gnump3d2/templates
> theme_directory    = C:/gnump3d2/templates
> theme_dir          = c:\gnump3d2\templates
> plugin_directory   = C:/gnump3d2/lib/gnump3d/plugins
> mime_file          = C:/gnump3d2/etc/mime.types
> file_types         = C:/gnump3d2/etc/file.types
> now_playing_dir    = C:/gnump3d2/logs/serving
> tag_cache          = C:/gnump3d2/logs/tag.cache
> lockfile           = C:/gnump3d2/lock.tmp
> plugin_directory   = C:/gnump3d2/lib/gnump3d/plugins
> now_playing_path   = c:\gnump3d2\logs\serving
> tag_cache          = C:/gnump3d2/logs/tag.cache
>
> Are the forward slash and back slash used interchangeably?  Is there 
> some sort of reason why one is used in a certain case?  If I revert back 
> to the default conf.win file, I have to use K:/music as opposed to 
> K:\music as my root directory or Firefox cannot open any 
> subdirectories.  What's the deal?
>
> Brian

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