Subj : Re: Bink D --- HELP!!! Don't know what I'm missing
To   : Tony Langdon
From : Bill McGarrity
Date : Tue Nov 07 2017 06:26 am

-=> Tony Langdon wrote to Bill McGarrity <=-

 -=> Bill McGarrity wrote to Alprunty <=-

 -=> Alprunty wrote to echicken <=-

 Al>   Re: Bink D --- HELP!!! Don't know what I'm missing
 Al>   By: echicken to Alprunty on Fri Apr 22 2016 08:45 pm

 > 'c:\\sbbs\\bink\\binkd.log' or 'c:/sbbs/bink/binkd.log'.

 Al> Why are we double slashing?

 BM> binkd uses a linux style cfg file which doesn't have the same directory
 BM> structure as a win based system.,... therefore the double slash when
 BM> using backslashes.  Trust us, it works.. :)

 TL> Looks like binkd interprets its config in a similar way to shells such
 TL> as Bask, so the first backslash is an escape character, the second
 TL> tells the parser that the character to read is a backslash.  Those of
 TL> us familiar with mixing Windows and Linux will have seen this before.
 TL> For example, when mounting SMB/CIFS shares on a Linux box.

Yup.  The instruction within the the cfg file actually state for WIN systems
the couble backslash is needed. 


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