[fpc-pascal] Windows backslash

Marco van de Voort marcov at stack.nl
Mon Apr 22 09:35:19 CEST 2013


In our previous episode, Mattias Gaertner said:
> It seems fpc converts under Windows \^ to ^.
> See here:
> 
> http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=23294
> 
> Is this a feature or a bug?

No idea, but IIRC ^ is the escape char on Windows NT cmdline shell (like \ in C).

So ^\ would be a non-path "\"   ?!? 

I don't know how deep it goes and if it is cmd.exe only.



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