Re: [Assp-test] Antwort: Re: Antwort: Re: About the penaltyboxcleanup

[GrayHat <gr...@gm...>]

> Just for me as an old Apple guy: why is the backslash used? 
> I thought, that Windows accept both slash and backslash and a
> ll the other systems like ..nix and MacOS X accept only slash.
> I remember that the backslash was in CP/M and DOS was trying 
> to be compatible but today?

As far as I know, the Perl "subsystem" will try hard to hide all the
differences, but sometimes it fails, so it would be a good idea
having a function to "normalize" the paths and always use "/"
when it comes to paths/filenames (and if we want to fathom this,
unix uses \n as the newline, apple use(d|s) \r while the "DOS"
uses \r\n ... so there's no definite agreement on that as well <g>)