Re: [MacPerl] Slashes (Was: Using UNIX style filenames with MacPerl)

[Greg Aiken <grega9@idt.net>]

I've used ActiveState's Win32 v5+ port and G.Sarathy's Win32 v5+port, as well
as an older v4 DOS port - fortunately all three treat this the same way.

Carl Johan Berglund wrote:

> At 16.30 +0200 98-05-18, Gerald Young wrote:
> >On 1998-05-18 03:44, L. Brian  Matthews <blm@halcyon.com> contributed:
> >>Yeah, like that. :-) Only, the backslash needs to be escaped: '\\',
> >>however, unless Bill has changed something recently, a forward slash
> >>works just as well.
> >
> >Just wondering (getting slightly off topic now):
> >
> >Obviously the DOS version of Perl can handle UNIX style "/" pathnames,
> >whereas the underlying filesystem (DOS) requires the "\" as dir seperator.
>
> This ability in Perl to treat '/' as '\', is it present in all DOS/Windows
> Perl ports?
>
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