bug#7308: [patch] locate under windoze

[Eduard Wiebe]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> > If so, wouldn't it be better to replace backslashes with forward
>> > slashes before the unquote loop?
>> 
>> Hmm. I'm not sure. How about an UNC path ala \\sever\share\path?
>
> No problem, //server/share/path will work.
>
>> If emacs correctly resolve an UNC path with forward slashes so i would
>> agree.
>
> Great.  Then running the file name through convert-standard-filename
> for windows-nt and doing nothing at all for ms-dos should do the
> trick.  (The MSDOS build does not need any changes because the only
> DOS port of GNU Findutils I'm aware of returns file names with forward
> slashes.)

Sorry Eli, but i cannot follow you :-)

If i understand the doc of `convert-standard-filename' correct, then the
function turns slashes to backslashes under MS-Windows instead of other
way around.

Please illuminate me :-)