OpenEuphoria

Re: Euphoria 2.4 Featured Bug?

• Posted by Christian.CUVIER at agriculture.gouv.fr Aug 01, 2003
• 476 views

> 
>> ex eudoxy/eudoxy
>> 
>> Note that I entered the path *as though* I were in Linux.  The fact I did
>> this didn't dawn on me, because ex located and ran eudoxy.ex despite my
>> trans-OS issues. 
> 
> 
> DOS/Windows seems to support both forward and backslash
> in some cases, although backslash is clearly the standard.
> Euphoria is not doing anything special to support this.
> After adding ".ex", it just passes your filename,
> with forward slash, through to the O/S (and it works).
> 

DOS has a switch to allow forward slashes be used as alias for 
backslashes. That swiych is user-modifiable thru int #21 AH=#37
(don't have the docs at hand to give you the specifics). The switch is 
in the state the last app to modify it lef it.
I guess DOS 7 or other newer DOS emulations support this call.

CChris