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Re: why doesn't vpath %.c subdir// work?


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: why doesn't vpath %.c subdir// work?
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2010 20:38:15 +0200

> From: "Mark Galeck (CW)" <address@hidden>
> Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2010 00:48:36 -0800
> Accept-Language: en-US
> acceptlanguage: en-US
> 
> >Don't double-slashes have some magical meaning in paths in Windows?
> 
> No - double-backslash does, but not double-forward.

Actually, Windows treats both flavors or slashes the same, so whatever
magic happens with \\foo\bar will also happen with //foo/bar.  Try it.
(If you try this from the cmd prompt, you will probably need to put
the file name in quotes, because cmd treats / as an option leader.)




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