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Subject:slashes, UNIX, and Windows From:Chris Hamilton <chamilton -at- GR -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 12 Jun 1997 14:04:21 -0500
I'm writing documentation for a distributed development environment. It
will run in UNIX and Windows environments. I have to show some
configuration that includes paths. The problem with that is, slashes go
one way in UNIX and the othe way in Windows. We're looking for a way to
represent paths in a way that wouldn't be platform specific. It seems
mutually exclusive.
Does anyone have any ideas about a way to display this without
specifying one operating system or another? (I don't think a tree view
would work.)
Chris
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