Re: WRKLNK paths, was: STRPCCMD

Simon - Thanks, I've never come across the word solidus before.  Good to 
know.

Vern - Also good to know.  I've always sort of wished that every system 
would work using either character, or at least that there was consistency 
between systems.  Obviously this is a bit of a pipe dream given the 
special meaning of "\" in common Unix shells and "/" in the Windows shell.

Just out of curiosity, I wanted to check if a path had to use the same 
separator throughout.  It would seem that 

wrklnk '\dir1/dir2\*'

is allowed.  This leads me to wonder - is there a way to escape special 
characters in those paths?


Simon wrote on 27/07/2006 08:47:17 AM:
 

On 27/07/2006, at 10:31 PM, AGlauser@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

If you REALLY want to be pedantic:

   / is a solidus
   \ is a reverse-solidus

Vern wrote on 27/07/2006:

Seriously, an interesting point here is that the iSeries recognizes 
both as valid. So you can use either

wrklnk '/*'

or

wrklnk '\*'

to open to the contents of the root. The IFS is officially Unix-ish - 
you will see only forward slashes in the header of the wrklnk screen.

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