OpenEuphoria

RE: include statement bugs

• Posted by Derek Parnell <ddparnell at bigpond.com> Oct 17, 2004
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irv mullins wrote:
> 
> Derek Parnell wrote:
> 
> > It turns out that this is not so stupid after all. That's because the 
> > '\' character is a valid file name character in Unix-land.
> > 
> > Try doing this in a linux or unix...
> > 
> > 
> >   echo hello >my\funny\file\name
> 
> Which I just did, and Linux removes the backslashes, so I have a 
> file named: myfunnyfilename

I was going from memory. I just tried it on an old SCO unix system
and got the same as you did. So I guess the point is that the
backslash is not being used as a directory delimiter in Unix.

-- 
Derek Parnell
Melbourne, Australia