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On Tue, May 06, 2003 at 04:05:14PM +0100, Nick Ing-Simmons wrote: > Edward Peschko <esp5@mdssirds.comp.pge.com> writes: > > > >ok, lets get a little bit closer - how about the logic inside perl to translate '/' to > >'\' inside of perl code on win32 versa? Do you think that's bad? And if so - given that > >'/' is an illegal character in a filename on windows, why? > > '/' is NOT an illegal character on Windows "C:/path/to/file" works just fine. > It is only cmd.exe that gets upset because it is using ye olde CPM rules > that /w is like UNIX's -w (so dir /w \foo\bar is akin to ls -l /foo/bar ) > > Sadly as cmd.exe is involved in system() and so on we do have to do conversions... > ok, that's what I want to know... *where* are the conversions done? I renamed this thread to 'shortcuts for core', because that's really what it is. Yes, I'd like to use shortcuts as a substitute for symlinks, but maybe its misleading to call them a substitute for symlinks. Anyways, I'd be happy to make this a module, except that there's no good way that I can see to override `` and @INC, and %INC (as well as saying 'perl script.p' where script.p.lnk is a link ). If I had a way of examining all paths at the source and changing them (in a module) then I'd be happy. As for cygnus et al and their substitutes.. eeaggh. What a waste of time. EdThread Previous | Thread Next