Cross-Platform File Naming
Files are named differently on UNIX, Windows, and Macintosh. UNIX separates file name components with a forward slash (/), Macintosh separates components with a colon (:), and Windows separates components with a backslash (\). In addition, the way that absolute and relative names are distinguished is different. For example, these are absolute pathnames for the Tcl script library (i.e., $tcl_library) on Macintosh, Windows, and UNIX, respectively:
Disk:System Folder:Extensions:Tool Command Language:tcl7.6 c:\Program Files\Tcl\lib\Tcl7.6 /usr/local/tcl/lib/tcl7.6
The good news is that Tcl provides operations that let you deal with file pathnames in a platform-independent manner. The file operations described in this ...
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