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From: Kaz Kylheku <643-408-1753@kylheku.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Which code style do you prefer the most?
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2025 04:29:19 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2025-02-28, candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> wrote:
> David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> wrote at 16:26 this Thursday (GMT):
>>> lines, /that/ would be a bug.
>>> 
>> The bug, of course, is using Windows and Windows-style paths :-)
>>
> What's worse, its a WONTFIX!

Not sure what you're talking about. All Microsoft operating systems
going back to MS-DOS have accepted the forward slash as an alternative
path separator.  C:/Windows/System32 is a legitimate Windows-style path.
Some incorrectly-written user space programs might not like it.


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