On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 9:07 AM, Luke Benstead <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:kazade@gmail.com">kazade@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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</div></div>This is probably a really dumb question... but why does wine support<br>
UNIX paths? What is the circumstance where a Windows application will<br>
be trying to access a native file or directory? The only example I can<br>
think of is that an app has specifically been written to be used in<br>
Wine, in which case, shouldn&#39;t native UNIX paths be disabled by<br>
default, and perhaps turned on with an environment variable?<br>
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Luke.<br>
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</font></blockquote></div><br>I personally enjoy the ability to use UNIX paths both in calling applications with command-line arguments and in file dialogs (even if it is necessary to use the wrong slash in dialogs).  I imagine that there are a lot of people that appreciate the ability to use this functionality, since you can use the &quot;familiar paths&quot; you do not need to be familiar with the windows drive mapping.<br>
<br>Erich Hoover<br><a href="mailto:ehoover@mines.edu">ehoover@mines.edu</a><br>