[time-nuts] Slashes

[Raj]

Peter & Hal,

Thanks for the explanations. I use Firefox, so I guess it's a windows
thing and not just IE.

I am also familiar with regular expressions although I don't use Unix/Linux.
It is useful for open office searches and a few utils that I have collected
or programmed over the last few decades.

Raj


>That is an artifact of IE on Windows.
>According to RFC 1738, URLs use the '/' to separate components of a
>hierarchy.
>Because MS-DOS (and therefor Windows...) uses '\' as a path separator,
>people using Windows will type the wrong separator in an URL.
>That is then 'fixed' by IE, instead of educating the user that the wrong
>separator is used...
>Problem is that people also use this wrong separator in html files,
>resulting in broken images/links :-(
>
>Also result of the difference in path separator between Unix and Windows:
>At my previous company a Sun workstation running Solaris was used as the
>main controller for the testbench and product, while a lot of people used
>Windows on the desktop.
>Sometimes I found files such as '\home\user\datafiles\bla\testresults.txt'
>on the machine, using the wrong separator.
>That PC user of course not understanding why the result file was not in
>his/her home directory :-)
>
>Greetings,
>Pieter.
>

-- 
Raj, VU2ZAP
Bangalore, India.