[Tutor] Popen4 and Paths Containing Spaces

Chuck Allison chuck at freshsources.com
Thu Jun 16 00:55:44 CEST 2005


Hello Hugo,

Wednesday, June 15, 2005, 12:20:37 PM, you wrote:

HGM> This problem is explained there. Also, why are you using those forward 
HGM> slashes in your Windows paths???? Meaning:  d:/program 
HGM> files/winzip/wzzip.exe

Windows doesn't care. The only place you can't use forward slashes in
path names is in a command prompt. It's been that way since DOS 2.0 in
the 80s. I prefer using the forward slashes in file name strings since
they're fairly portable.

-- 
Best regards,
 Chuck



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