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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!cancer.vividnet.com!hunter.premier.net!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!tezcat.com!news.ner.bbnplanet.net!public.x.org!kaleb From: kaleb@x.org (Kaleb KEITHLEY) Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc Subject: Re: How to delete files within C programs Date: 9 May 96 18:03:56 GMT Organization: X Consortium Lines: 15 Message-ID: <kaleb.831665036@exalt> References: <Oum-El-Kheir.Benkahla-3004961724540001@mac-ugm-3.imag.fr> <4mpo0f$57r@innocence.interface-business.de> <4mq4o3$qkh@news.rhrz.uni-bonn.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: exalt.x.org X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #5 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.misc:22591 comp.unix.bsd.misc:963 j@ida.interface-business.de (J Wunsch) writes: >Much unlike MessyDOS, which appeared after Unix, cloned some of the >Unix features in a miserable way (the hierarchical file system, though >they've botched the pathname separator. Not to be supportive of MS-DOS, but you're mistaken about the pathname separator. At the system call level DOS allows the use of either '/' or '\' as path separators. It's only the shells, COMMAND.COM in DOS and CMD.EXE in NT that require you to use '\'. -- Kaleb KEITHLEY