Re: posix and win32 enviornment

[Randall R Schulz <rschulz at sonic dot net>]

Andrew,

At 14:48 2003-07-07, Andrew DeFaria wrote:
> Shankar Unni wrote:
>
> > Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> >
> > > [...] you'll be using the MinGW libraries, and your  program will 
> > > not understand POSIX paths (i.e., you'll have to use Win32  ones).
> >
> > Well, to be totally, utterly nitpicky, I believe "/WinNT/System32" is 
> > a valid POSIX filename which will be understood by Win32 programs as 
> > well (assuming that their current drive is "C:" :-).
>
> And also assuming that your Windows installation is in WinNT. With XP 
> that's C:\Windows!

For Windows 2000 the directory name is also "/WinNT" or "/WINNT".


> (Hey you were the one that started this "totally, utterly nitpicky" 
> stuff :-) )

And it ain't over yet.

%SystemRoot% need not be on the "C:" drive. On my system, it's on "D:", e.g.


Randall Schulz 


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