thank you all
On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 2:12 PM, Phil Schumm <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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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