Experimental Physics and
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I can get both forward and backward slashes.

C:\home\epics\R3.14.7\base\configure\tools>fullPathName.pl ..\..
C:/home/epics/R3.14.7/base
C:\home\epics\R3.14.7\base\configure\tools>fullPathName.pl ../..
C:/home/epics/R3.14.7/base
C:\home\epics\R3.14.7\base\configure\tools>fullPathName.pl c:\home
c:\home
C:\home\epics\R3.14.7\base\configure\tools>fullPathName.pl c:/home
c:/home
C:\home\epics\R3.14.7\base\configure\tools>
C:\home\npr78>perl -v

This is perl, v5.8.7 built for MSWin32-x86-multi-thread
(with 14 registered patches, see perl -V for more detail)

Copyright 1987-2005, Larry Wall

Binary build 815 [211909] provided by ActiveState
http://www.ActiveState.com
ActiveState is a division of Sophos.
Built Nov  2 2005 08:44:52

Looks like perl is not completely consistent.

Cheers,

Nick Rees
Principal Software Engineer           Phone: +44 (0)1235-778430
Diamond Light Source                  Fax:   +44 (0)1235-446713 
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