Can anyone tell me what the hell is a "terminal slash"? I'm translating a readme for BGT-Weidu to Polish and since I've never met with the term I need some clarification. Is just "/" or "\" or something completely different?
Could you post the sentance it was used in? I've not heard of a "Terminal slash" in any context other than "a slashing attack that resulted in the targets termination).
Sure... why haven't I thought of that earlier? ;P "When prompted for Baldur’s Gate I installation, type in the appropriate path without any terminal slashes, then press Enter"
I guess that means the installation path without the last \ E.G. C:\program files\whichever folder the BG install is going to go in\ The \ would be the terminal slash.
Here's the long and skinny of English (US) technical jargon for slashes. The / character is a 'slash' and is sometimes called 'forward slash'. As a punctuation mark (instead of a keyboard key), it is called a 'solidus'. The \ character is a 'backslash'. As a punctuation mark (instead of a keyboard key), it is called a 'reverse solidus'. A terminal slash is a slash character ( / ) added to the end of a directory path and is more normally associated with URL web addresses to denote the terminating end of a path in a URL web address. (unless someone is like a java or unix person and they use them more than that) factoid - Most web URLs do not have terminating slashes because they can cause concatenation - a search engine can concatenate [add, combine or adjoin] two paths, become confused (so to speak) and return an invalid search statement or an illegal operation reply.
