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  87 >The default directory for installing
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  91 > on Windows (usually
  92 <TT
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  94 >C:/Program Files/eCos</TT
  95 >) is different from that on
  96 Linux (usually <TT
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  98 >/opt/ecos</TT
  99 >).  Since many command
 100 line examples in the tutorials use these paths, this default (base)
 101 directory will be cited as <TT
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 104 >BASE_DIR</I
 105 ></TT
 106 >.</P
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 108 >Windows and Linux have a similar file system syntax, but the
 109 MS-DOS command interpreter on Windows uses the backslash character
 110 (\) as a path separator, while Linux and POSIX shells (including
 111 the Cygwin bash shell for windows) use the forward slash (/).</P
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