Re: Confused over forward slashes under windows - anybody?

Paul <paul_at_not.a.chance.ie> wrote in message news:<MPG.1b2cfe908c31f94f98993d_at_news1.eircom.net>...
> niall.litchfield_at_dial.pipex.com says...
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> > You will however be allowed to use / as a directory seperator since oh about
> > dos 2.
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> OK - a quick test shows that to work. My question is *_why_* does Oracle
> choose to have *_some_ and not all of its services specified in such a
> manner rather than using the windows convention?
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> Paul...
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> Please do not top-post.
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> "XML avoids the fundamental question of what we should do,
> by focusing entirely on how we should do it."
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> quote from http://www.metatorial.com

Because Oracle is an Unix product, and Windoze allows the Unix conventions, as it stole several DOS-features from Unix. If you don't like it, switch to a different product, where you will find other problems.

Sybrand Bakker
Senior Oracle DBA Received on Mon Jun 07 2004 - 06:37:23 CDT