[fpc-pascal] DoDirSeparators and special filenames on Windows

[wkitty42 at windstream.net]

On Tuesday, September 10, 2013 11:35 AM, Jürgen Hestermann <juergen.hestermann at gmx.de> wrote: 
> Am 12013090922:28, schrieb Tomas Hajny: 
>  > ...and the issue is that at least some Windows API functions happily accept 
> such paths, 
>  > i.e. programs using such API functions accept them too. 
>  > If FPC RTL manages to "translate" a path accepted by Windows 
>  > (and other programs not compiled to FPC too) to something which is not 
> accepted by 
>  > Windows (API) any longer, then we may consider fixing such "translation". 
>  
> IMO, when a path contains two consecutive path delimiters then something is 
> wrong. 

sadly, i've seen this multiple delimiters thing a lot in recent years... it seems that in many cases, they are simply read as one delimiter...

i've seen this in a lot of web URLs when hiliting and/or clicking on URLs as well as in numerous applications on both *nix and winwhatever... some of this has even been seen in ported applications to OS2...