Hi Jonathan,

On  Jonathan de Boyne Pollard wrote to Kelly Schrock:

 JdBP>   Doesn't it act just like '\' though ?  In other words, it cannot occur
 JdBP>   in a file *name*, because it is a path delimiter, yes ?

/ does act like \ in filenames:

#include 
#include 

void main()
{
        FILE *fin;

        if ((fin=fopen("c:/cprog/os2/sl.c", "r")) ==
(FILE*) NULL)
                printf("Can't find c:/cprog/os2/sl.c\n");
        else
                {
                printf("c:/cprog/os2/sl.c is found and opened\n");
                fclose (fin);
                }

}

Then run it:

C:\CPROG\OS2>sl.exe
c:/cprog/os2/sl.c is found and opened

The advantages are: 

 - it prevents double slashes like "c:\\cprog\\os2".
 - Unix compatible


73 es cuagn,
 Henk

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