[fpc-pascal] DoDirSeparators and special filenames on Windows

[Sven Barth]

On 09.09.2013 18:31, Jürgen Hestermann wrote:
>
> Am 2013-09-08 19:56, schrieb Sven Barth:
>> On 08.09.2013 10:44, Jürgen Hestermann wrote:
>>> In my many decades of MS experience I never have seen double path
>>> delimiters anywhere. How do you generate them? I would not know how
>>> to do it.
>> Windows Explorer does not allow them, because it uses the long path
>> names while on the other hand e.g. PowerShell and Cmd do indeed allow
>> them.
>
> That does not explain how double delimeters creep into paths.
> Because it seems hard to generate them I can't believe that they
> commonly exist.

When editing a path inside an edit box I (and I also know others) manage 
here and then to miss a "\" so that the resulting path as duplicate path 
delimiters...

Regards,
Sven