Re: [Bug-gnubg] Last changes

[Jim Segrave]

On Tue 05 Feb 2008 (15:06 -0700), Michael Petch wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> On 2/5/08 3:00 PM, "Jim Segrave" <address@hidden> wrote:
>  
> > Simple solution, use forward slashes. Windows accepts them just fine:
> > 
> > "C:/Documents and Settings/something/or another" is a valid windows
> > path
> > Otherwise you need
> > 
> > "C:\\Documents and Settings\\something\\or another"
> > 
> 
> Are you sure? Windows considers / as a command line parameter delimeter. Its
> actually that problem I had to fix in the new sound screen (where you choose
> the path). The first time into GnuBG the sound patsh look like:
> 
> c:\program files\gnubg\sounds/fanfare.wav

I just tried this on my XP box at work in a command shell:

dir "C:Documents and Settings/uv05qx"

and got a directory listing of the subdirectory uv05qx of my Documnets
and Settings folder.

I know that the programatic interface (syscalls) accepts '/' as a
directory separator, it's the command interpreter that has problems
with using '/' as an option lead-in


> It doesn't like the /. 
> 

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Jim Segrave           address@hidden