AppDB Not accepting backslashes in HOWTOs

Jonathan Ernst Jonathan at ErnstFamily.ch
Sun Jul 10 16:46:24 CDT 2005


I know about this problem, I'll try to fix it and send a patch.

Thanks for the feedback !

Le samedi 09 juillet 2005 à 19:33 -0700, James Liggett a écrit :
> Thanks Andrew, that worked. Duh...I should have thought of that. BTW,
> did you get Windows Installer working?
> 
> James
> 
> On Sun, 2005-07-10 at 03:08 +0100, Andrew Neil Ramage wrote:
> > Sounds like a Unix/Linux feature where the backslash is used for escape 
> > codes, so you should use double backslashes.  eg, C:\\Some\\Directory\\File
> > 
> > Andrew
> > 
> > You can be the captain
> > I will draw the chart
> > Sailing into destiny
> > Closer to the heart
> > 
> > Closer to the Heart by Rush (A Farewell to Kings, 1977)
> > 
> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > 
> > 
> > James Liggett wrote:
> > > I took a look at a howto in one of my AppDB entries, and I noticed that
> > > where thare are supposed to be backslash characters (mostly in windows
> > > paths,) they don't show up. If I enter something like Windows\system, it
> > > shows up fine in the preview, but when it actually goes to the real page
> > > it shows as Windowssystem. See
> > > http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?versionId=1043 for a few more
> > > examples. Has anyone seen anything like this before?
> > > 
> > > Thanks,
> > > James Liggett
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> 
> 
> 
-- 
Jonathan Ernst <Jonathan at ErnstFamily.ch>
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