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Re: posix and win32 enviornment
Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
On Mon, 7 Jul 2003, Andrew DeFaria wrote:
Shankar Unni wrote:
Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
[...] you'll be using the MinGW libraries, and your program will
not understand POSIX paths (i.e., you'll have to use Win32 ones).
Well, to be totally, utterly nitpicky, I believe "/WinNT/System32"
is a valid POSIX filename which will be understood by Win32 programs
as well (assuming that their current drive is "C:" :-).
Upping the level of nitpicking (and off-topicness) here, I don't see
where Shankar assumes that the Windows installation is WinNT. In fact,
Win98 will happily understand (and access, if it exists) the
/WinNT/System32
directory (or file, as may well be). The only thing assumed here is
that the directory is on the C: drive. :-)
Well there's no /WinNT on my system!
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