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Enkita mody
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I read that in windows backslash is used to make classpath while in unix forward slash but for my windowxp both are working. 
C:\WINDOWS\system32>java -cp F:\Music\Audio Hello
hello
C:\WINDOWS\system32>java -cp F:/Music/Audio Hello
hello
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Jelle Klap
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It depends on which character(s) an operating system recognizes as a file separator.
See this wikipedia article.
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Ivan Jozsef Balazs
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Jelle Klap wrote:It depends on which character(s) an operating system recognizes as a file separator.
It also might depend on the various programs.
This does not work for me on Windows from the command shell, because dir seems to take / for the beginning on option:
dir build/WEB-INF
This however does:
dir build\WEB-INF
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Jelle Klap
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Yes, that's why the wikipedia article I linked to specifies the OS and Shell contexts.
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Enkita mody
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Ivan Jozsef Balazs wrote:
Jelle Klap wrote:It depends on which character(s) an operating system recognizes as a file separator.
It also might depend on the various programs.
This does not work for me on Windows from the command shell, because dir seems to take / for the beginning on option:
dir build/WEB-INF
This however does:
dir build\WEB-INF
It works for classpath not for dir command.
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Angus Comber
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ankita modi. wrote:It works for classpath not for dir command.
In addition, Unix based operating systems use / for file separators, while Windows uses \.
Unix based uses : for token separator while Windows uses ;.
It looks like javac in your case can work with / or \
You can also install Cygwin (http://www.cygwin.com) on a Windows machine which provides a Unix style environment.
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Winston Gutkowski
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ankita modi. wrote:I read that in windows backslash is used to make classpath while in unix forward slash but for my windowxp both are working.
I suspect that it may have to do with the fact that the 'java' command uses Java conventions; and in Java '/' is recognised as a file (or, more correctly, a directory or path) separator in the right context. For example, the java.io.File class accepts '/' as a path separator regardless of what system the program is running on.
My question is: when will Microsoft get around to accepting what pretty much the rest of the computer world already uses?
Answer: probably never; and I'm certainly not going to hold my breath waiting. 
Winston
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