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- Subject: Re: Running Lua script file from Lua Console
- From: Reuben Thomas <rrt@...>
- Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2009 09:55:39 +0100
2009/9/9 George Petsagourakis <petsagouris@gmail.com>:
> David Kastrup <dak <at> gnu.org> writes:
>
>>
>> George Petsagourakis <petsagouris <at> gmail.com> writes:
>>
>> >
>> > As far as I know, Windows accepts both '/' and '\' for directory separators.
>>
>> No, it doesn't. The C library does, though. Which means that slashes
>> work, except where they don't.
>>
>
> It works on the cmd.exe so there is support for both back-slash and
> forward-slash on windows.
This has worked since DOS 2.0, except where it would be ambiguous,
e.g. you can't say
cd /foo
because that looks like you're trying to pass the "/foo" option to cd.
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