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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!news.sol.net!uwm.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!Germany.EU.net!Dortmund.Germany.EU.net!interface-business.de!usenet From: j@ida.interface-business.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc Subject: Re: How to delete files within C programs Date: 10 May 1996 10:52:50 GMT Organization: interface business GmbH, Dresden Lines: 17 Message-ID: <4mv762$fl7@innocence.interface-business.de> References: <Oum-El-Kheir.Benkahla-3004961724540001@mac-ugm-3.imag.fr> <4m5p3k$3nq@dfw-ixnews2.ix.netcom.com> <4m7sr3$rf9@news.rhrz.uni-bonn.de> <DqtDDy.Hrq@metapro.dialix.oz.au> <4md46o$1bk@news.rhrz.uni-bonn.de> <4mo0pd$268@innocence.interface-business.de> <4moci3$80u@news.rhrz.uni-bonn.de> <4mpo0f$57r@innocence.interface-business.de> <4mq4o3$qkh@news.rhrz.uni-bonn.de> <kaleb.831665036@exalt> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: ida.interface-business.de X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-31809-14 X-Fax: +49-351-3361187 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.misc:22612 comp.unix.bsd.misc:985 kaleb@x.org (Kaleb KEITHLEY) wrote: > Not to be supportive of MS-DOS, but you're mistaken about the pathname > separator. At the system call level DOS allows the use of either '/' or > '\' as path separators. It's only the shells, COMMAND.COM in DOS and > CMD.EXE in NT that require you to use '\'. I know. :) In DR-DOS, you could even change the ``switch character'' to `-', and then command.com was able to use slashes as pathname separators as well. Nevertheless, they've botched it by introducing a new one. -- J"org Wunsch Unix support engineer joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de http://www.interface-business.de/~j