Re: st: saving all file names in directory/folder

[Phil Schumm <pschumm@uchicago.edu>]

On Apr 17, 2008, at 1:53 PM, Phil Schumm wrote:
> On Apr 17, 2008, at 1:19 PM, Gabi Huiber wrote:
> > When reading directory paths in Stata, always use forward slashes.
> <snip>
>
> > Windows does not care. Unix would, but that's not the reason for  
> > this advice.
>
> A minor correction.  Windows does care -- it expects to see paths  
> separated by "\" just as Unix/Linux/OS X expect to see paths  
> separated by "/".  The fact that you can use forward slashes in  
> your Stata code and have it work on all platforms is courtesy of  
> Stata.

I must apologize -- I was wrong.  The Windows users here have  
informed me that

    - DOS services since 2.0 and all Windows APIs have always  
accepted either
      forward or backward slashes, but

    - the standard command shells (CMD or COMMAND) only accept  
backward slashes

The latter is all I have ever used under Windows, which was the  
source of my misunderstanding.  Serves me right for commenting on  
something I know nothing about ;)


-- Phil

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