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On Fri, 19 Jul 2002, Marc M. Adkins wrote:
> ./test.exe <parm> 2>&1
> which doesn't work under Windows (those durn backwards path separators).
>
> Either:
> .\test.exe <parm> 2>&1
> or
> test.exe <parm> 2>&1
> will work.
Alas none of those are portable. The first won't work on Unix. The
second incorrectly assumes that the current directory is in the user's
$PATH. (The situation's even worse, of course, if the test program is
truly named 'test' since that's also a built-in on many shells.)
> I suppose that there is a flag indicating that the platform is Windows that
> could be used as a conditional in these two functions.
Yup, I think that's what you have to do.
--
Andy Dougherty doughera@lafayette.edu
Dept. of Physics
Lafayette College, Easton PA 18042
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