Re: [photran] photran cygwin problem with "mkdir"

[Daniel Harenberg <dan.harenberg@xxxxxxxxx>]

I guess that Cygwin uses the Linux standard for separating folder names 
in a path, which is a forward slash '/' as opposed to the Windows 
standard, which is a backward slash '\'. Maybe that helps you.


On 07/04/2013 04:16 PM, Simon Krebietke wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm using Eclispe Juno for Fortran programming (Windows 8). I 
> installed cygwin and everything is compiling fine and the program is 
> running.
> I use the command "call system('mkdir'//' '//'D:\read_data') to create 
> a directory but i get the following error:
>
> mkdir: cannot create directory 'D:read_data': File exists
>
> The backslash is just gone. If I replace it with a "/" than everything 
> works fine.
>
> Does anybody know where the problem is?
>
> Thanks a lot!
>
> Simon
>
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