[GRASS-dev] select issue with wingrass

Glynn Clements glynn at gclements.plus.com
Mon Nov 19 11:09:49 EST 2007


Michael Barton wrote:

> Given other discussions about forward and backward slashes, should
> env(GISDBASE) be run through file normalize or not? What about env(GISBASE)?

Ideally, it shouldn't be necessary; they should be in "internal"
format already. But it won't do any harm.

Code which passes filenames to the OS' shell needs to explicitly call
G_convert_dirseps_to_host() (C) or "file nativename ..." (Tcl).

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Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>


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