Re: Confused over forward slashes under windows - anybody?

sybrandb_at_yahoo.com says...

> > 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?

> Because Oracle is an Unix product, and Windoze allows the Unix
> conventions, as it stole several DOS-features from Unix.

Fine. My question was really more about *_why_* Oracle decided to retain one service (out of the nine I have on my machine) using the Unix style convention, whereas all the others use the Windows convention?

> If you don't like it, switch to a different product, where you will
> find other problems.

It's not that I don't like it, I'm just curious as to the logic which led to such an approach, or was it just a simple oversight on the part of somebody somewhere?

Paul...

> Sybrand Bakker

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