4.6 Windows Limitations

• File paths with both ‘/’ and ‘\’ as separator are accepted. SICStus returns paths using ‘/’. Note that ‘\’, since it is escape character, must be given as ‘\\’.
• All file names and paths are normalized when expanded by absolute_file_name/3. This is to simulate the case insensitivity used by Windows file systems. However, built-ins that create files, e.g. open/4, will create files using the same character case as specified in the file argument.
• Emacs Issues: Running under Emacs has been tried with recent versions of GNU Emacs. See The Emacs Interface.
  • - Choosing ‘Send EOF’ from the menu, i.e. comint-send-eof), closes the connection to the SICStus process. This will cause SICStus to exit. This problem cannot be fixed in SICStus; it is a limitation of current versions of GNU Emacs (at least up to GNU Emacs 20.7).

    Instead of sending and end of file, you can enter the atom end_of_file followed by a period.

• Under Windows, statistics(runtime, …) measures user time of the thread running SICStus (the main thread) instead of process user time. This makes statistics(runtime, …) meaningful also in a multi-threaded program.