From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
Subject: Re: Can anyone build AWS on Windows?
Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2014 17:24:28 -0500
Date: 2014-10-09T17:24:28-05:00 [thread overview]
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"Shark8" <OneWingedShark@gmail.com> wrote in message
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>> And installing requires some different tools on UNIX and Windows.
>> Plus the whole stupidity of \ vs / for directory separator and not
>> counting the ; vs : path separator.
>
> Windows allows you to use /, it has since before Vista [IIRC].
Off topic, but Windows always has allowed one to use '/'. In fact, so did
MS-DOS. I think it always did since paths were introduced. The issue is that
'/' is typically the command line option character, so using '/' as a path
separator often doesn't work in command line tools (depends on the tool).
But it's always worked in the underlying OS, so programs can use it.
Randy.
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2014-10-01 18:16 ` Can anyone build AWS on Windows? Björn Lundin
2014-10-03 3:12 ` David Botton
2014-10-03 3:17 ` David Botton
2014-10-03 7:39 ` Björn Lundin
2014-10-02 6:13 ` Shark8
2014-10-03 16:27 ` Pascal Obry
2014-10-03 18:27 ` Shark8
2014-10-09 22:24 ` Randy Brukardt [this message]
2014-10-04 2:04 ` Jeremiah
2014-10-05 1:53 ` David Botton
2014-10-04 21:17 ` Maciej Sobczak
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