OpenEuphoria

Re: EDS change request

• Posted by Robert Craig <rds at RapidEuphori?.com> Jul 10, 2007
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FD(censored) wrote:
> This is not a major problem at all, you can easily fix it with inline code
> within
> the calling program - but I propose a very minor change within the database.e
> file, for the sake of completeness of EXW completely supporting the
> forwardslash
> only.
> I couldn't work out why the hell db_compress() was failing for an hour or so,
> I was really scratching my head.
> 
> The forwardslash works fine in *all* aspects of Euphoria IO except for
> db_compress
> (windows doesn't like the copy path). Given that the database.e include file
> is part of the actual euphoria distribution,I think it'd be pertinent to
> include
> default support for the forwardslash within the windows distribution.

I see one place in database.e, in name_only(), which is only used
by db_compress(), where I've hard-coded a backslash.
I'll change that so forward slash will work 
on Linux/FreeBSD (which is an even worse bug), and either 
forward slash or back slash will work on Windows.

Thanks,
   Rob Craig
   Rapid Deployment Software
   http://www.RapidEuphoria.com