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Re: Cygwin directory slash problem?


> Me in Reflection wrote:
> For some reason, my installation of Cygwin does not accept the
> backslash (\) but only accepts the forward slash as in Linux (/) at
> the bash prompt or at the gcc input. Is this the default behaviour
> that cannot be changed? Or is there somewhere I can change this? I

Either use quoting

    '\foo\bar'

or double backslashes

    \\foo\\bar

Corinna

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