Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site utastro.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!qantel!dual!lll-crg!mordor!ut-sally!utastro!nather From: nather@utastro.UUCP (Ed Nather) Newsgroups: net.micro.pc Subject: Re: Pathnames in "C" compilers (Help!) Message-ID: <754@utastro.UUCP> Date: Wed, 25-Sep-85 21:09:45 EDT Article-I.D.: utastro.754 Posted: Wed Sep 25 21:09:45 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 29-Sep-85 05:49:03 EDT References: <450@philabs.UUCP> <103700016@ima.UUCP> <1332@teddy.UUCP> Organization: U. Texas, Astronomy, Austin, TX Lines: 14 > Thank goodness microsoft left the back door open and allows me to > change the option character to '-'. At least in MSDOS 2.XX. *sigh* --- too bad Microsoft is not Microsoft-compatible. Their new, spiffy C compiler v 3.0 has a neat option: expand command-line wild cards before your very eyes! Amaze your programmer friends! So long as you *don't* change the pathname separator to "/"!! This new, true- blue Unix-like option generates pathnames with "\" only! *sigh* -- Ed Nather Astronomy Dept, U of Texas @ Austin {allegra,ihnp4}!{noao,ut-sally}!utastro!nather nather@astro.UTEXAS.EDU