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** 'convert-standard-filename' no longer mirrors slashes on MS-Windows.
Previously, on MS-Windows this function converted slash characters in
-file names into backslashes. It no longer does that.
+file names into backslashes. It no longer does that. If your Lisp
+program used 'convert-standard-filename' to prepare file names to be
+passed to subprocesses (which is not the recommended usage of that
+function), you will now have to mirror slashes in your application
+code. One possible way is this:
+
+ (let ((start 0))
+ (while (string-match "/" file-name start)
+ (aset file-name (match-beginning 0) ?\\)
+ (setq start (match-end 0))))
** GUI sessions now treat SIGINT like Posix platforms do.
The effect of delivering a Ctrl-C (SIGINT) signal to a GUI Emacs on