Comment # 18
on bug 11372
from Graham Bloice
(In reply to Guy Harris from comment #17)
> (In reply to Graham Bloice from comment #16)
> > The uat "editor" produces a File Open dialog, and the resulting path from
> > the chosen file is saved with forward slashes.
>
> As in C:/Hello/there/file.xxx, or as in a Cygwin path?
>
Yes.
> > So a gui user will be "OK", although the path looks odd in Windows, but a
> > command line user on Windows is in some difficulty.
>
> Perhaps we should, instead, store it in the native format, with backslashes
> escaped, and make sure that everything *else* that enters a pathname escapes
> it as necessary?
I was wondering why the uat code needs to unescape things at all? Why would
you want to put "control" characters into a uat record?
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