File Paths on windows and unix

Hi
I believe I read that when specifiying file paths in java, this is one aspect which is not platform independent. So if you develop something on windows which uses file paths if you wish to run it on unix you will need to change the syntax pertaining to the path. Is this correct?
Cheers

Well, generally file paths on unix and windows are very differently arranged, so it's actually fairly unlikely you'd want the same paths. Genarally files are either resources, best accessed with getResource/getResourceAsStream or they ought to be variable, perhaps stored in configuration (it's well worth getting to know java.util.prefs.Preferences).
And I usually find that if I'm dealing with a directory heirarchy relative to some base directory the two parameter File constructor is cleaner than mucking about with path separators.

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