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changeset 28608:c46c2efa3731
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| author | Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org> |
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| date | Sun, 16 Apr 2000 17:21:24 +0000 |
| parents | 7d75f0ff6c50 |
| children | 8099fbbcc6e9 |
| files | lispref/files.texi |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/lispref/files.texi Sun Apr 16 14:54:52 2000 +0000 +++ b/lispref/files.texi Sun Apr 16 17:21:24 2000 +0000 @@ -1410,8 +1410,8 @@ Concatenating these two parts reproduces the original file name. On most systems, the directory part is everything up to and including -the last slash; the nondirectory part is the rest. The rules in VMS -syntax are complicated. +the last slash (or backslash, on MS-DOS or MS-Windows); the nondirectory +part is the rest. The rules in VMS syntax are complicated. For some purposes, the nondirectory part is further subdivided into the name proper and the @dfn{version number}. On most systems, only @@ -1505,6 +1505,15 @@ @end example @end defun +@defvar directory-sep-char +@tindex directory-sep-char +This variable holds the character that the system normally uses to +separate file name components. The value is @code{?/} on GNU and Unix +systems, and @code{?\\} on MS-DOS and MS-Windows. Note that file names +using slashes as separators work properly in Emacs on all of these +systems; you are not obliged to use backslashes on Microsoft systems. +@end defvar + @node Directory Names @comment node-name, next, previous, up @subsection Directory Names