From bug-request at octave dot org Fri Jan 13 14:01:08 2006
Subject: "/" Used Instead of Filesep
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: Bill Denney <denney at seas dot upenn dot edu>
Cc: bug at octave dot org
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 15:00:57 -0500

On  8-Jan-2006, Bill Denney wrote:

| With the work by Timothée Lecomte and David Bateman on a MingW build, I 
| thought I would look into bugs where '/' or "\" were used when filesep 
| should have been used.  Here are diffs that patch such bugs.

I applied the part of your changes that were for Octave.

Since Windows systems can accept either '\' or '/' as directory
separators in filenames, I'm not sure it really matters.  OTOH, there
could still be some problems since we should probably also accept
either from users when Octave is built for "native Windows".  In that
case, users should probably be allowed to use '\' and '/'
interchangeably.  Fixing that will probalby be a bit more work.

jwe



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