> it's not such a well known fact, but Windows will correctly connect to a
> database if you use the Unix path separator char (/) instead of (\). It
> works under IB_SQL too. Notepad etc all handle the 'wrong' path separators
> quite happily - try start | run then type 'notepad c:/temp/test.txt'
> (assuming you have that file !) and see how it 'just works'.
>
> It's a sort of well kept secret in Windows development.

The main reason it's a secret is that it does not work
everywhere, and nowbody has documented the problem areas as
yet <g>

A couple of places that were a problem have certainly been
tidied up in later versions of windows.

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