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    -=> 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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