Directory separators

[jPV]

Hollywood converts both slashes and backslashes in file operations as directory separators, but can you bypass this feature in any way and force it to use only one separator?

I have some issues because on Amiga compatibles you can have directory and file names that contain backslashes. For example, filesysbox under MorphOS converts unknown non-printable characters to \xHEXA format, which contains the backslash in file/dir names then. If you mount a network share that contains some alien charset/characters that get converted to this \x format, they fail with Hollywood's functions.

Here's an example:

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f$ = "ram:test\\file"
Execute("Touch", f$)       ; Creates "ram:test\file" file
DebugPrint(f$, Exists(f$)) ; Exists return 0
s$ = FileToString(f$)      ; Cannot read file

[airsoftsoftwair]

Makes sense. I can add a command that allows scripts to turn off interpreting backslashes as directory separators on non-Windows systems. That should fix the problem.

[airsoftsoftwair]

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- New: Added AllowBackslash() function to Hollywood's DOS library; if you pass TRUE to this function, all
  of Hollywood's DOS commands won't automatically map the backslash to a slash character; this can be
  useful on non-Windows systems where the backslash character is a normal character that can be used in
  filenames