Re: [MacPerl] Using UNIX style filenames with MacPerl

[Gerald Young <yog@adis.at>]

On 1998-05-18 03:44, L. Brian  Matthews <blm@halcyon.com> contributed:

>Carl Johan Berglund writes:
>|At 20.43 +0200 98-05-17, Brian "L." Matthews wrote:
>|>I find the easiest way to deal with the problem is what someone else
>|>suggested--set a variable at the start of the program that contains :
>|>under MacPerl and / under Unix or Windows perl, and use it instead of
>|>a separator in paths.
>|$dlm = $^O eq 'MacOS' ? ':' : $^O =~ /^Win/ ? '\' : '/';
>
>Yeah, like that. :-) Only, the backslash needs to be escaped: '\\',
>however, unless Bill has changed something recently, a forward slash
>works just as well.

Just wondering (getting slightly off topic now):

Obviously the DOS version of Perl can handle UNIX style "/" pathnames, 
whereas the underlying filesystem (DOS) requires the "\" as dir seperator.

How come?

-- Gerald

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