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- From: ajcd@dcs.ed.ac.UK (Angus Duggan)
- Subject: Re: GSWIN 2.5.2 and DOS pathnames
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- Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 17:30:18 GMT
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- In article <lg8a4gINN3ot@boogie.cs.utexas.edu>, swisher@cs.utexas.edu (Janet M. Swisher) writes:
- > In GSWIN (and GS for DOS, for that matter), when I type something
- > like:
- >
- > (c:\mypapers\sample.ps) run
- >
- > I get an /undefinedfilename error, and the operand stack shows:
- >
- > (c:mypaperssample.ps) (r)
- >
- > This does not happen if I specify the filename on the command line, or
- > if I use /'s instead of \'s. The "File Searching" section of USE.DOC
- > pretty clearly implies that GS ought to know how to handle \'s. So
- > why is it eating them instead?
-
- Because \ in a PostScript string is similar to \ in a C string; it escapes the
- next character. See page 29 of the Red Book, 2nd Edn. What you want is:
-
- (c:\\mypapers\\sample.ps) run
-
- a.
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