On 17-Oct-2006, Michael Goffioul wrote:
| Use the correct sepchar when producing the default history file
| Index: src/oct-hist.cc
| ===================================================================
| RCS file: /cvs/octave/src/oct-hist.cc,v
| retrieving revision 1.85
| diff -p -c -r1.85 oct-hist.cc
| *** src/oct-hist.cc 30 Jun 2006 18:19:21 -0000 1.85
| --- src/oct-hist.cc 17 Oct 2006 11:07:42 -0000
| *************** default_history_file (void)
| *** 101,107 ****
| --- 101,113 ----
| if (! home_dir.empty ())
| {
| file = home_dir;
| + #ifndef _MSC_VER
| file.append ("/.octave_hist");
| + #else
| + if (file[file.length()-1] != file_ops::dir_sep_char)
| + file.append (file_ops::dir_sep_str);
| + file.append (".octave_hist");
| + #endif
| }
| else
| file = ".octave_hist";
Why does this matter? I thought the underlying Windows functions
could use either \ or /.