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		tba on April 20, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: Open-sourced my Java chess AI high school... Cool project! Anyone trying to run it on *nix will need to open Main.java and replace all instances of the windows-specific file separator "\\" with "/".

jared314 on April 20, 2013 [–]

It should be using the java.io.File.separator[0] constant for platform independence.

[0] http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/io/File.html#s...

madsravn on April 20, 2013 | [–]

For future reference, just using slash ("/") will work for both Windows and Unix systems (linux and OSX)

jared314 on April 21, 2013 | | [–]

Yes, Windows treats both "/" and "\" as separators. Just make sure you handle the edge cases.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4845866/java-on-windows-p...

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