Re: Slashes (Re: PATH vs. Path ([Fwd: Returned mail: see transcript for details]

[David Baird]

> > Don't forget though, when spawning a process you need the command line to
> > use \ instead of /.
> 
> Besides automated tests, what was the reason to translate slashes in
> the $(MAKE)?

Please, someone correct me if I am wrong. Was this behevior to support
Cygwin or MSYS? Is this a behavior not desired for SHELL = CMD.EXE
make files?

-David