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# Directory and file system conventions

The default directory for installing eCos on Windows (usually `C:\Program Files\Cygnus Solutions\eCos`) is different from that on UNIX (usually `/usr/local/ecos-1.2.1`). Since many command line examples in the tutorials use these paths, this default (base) directory will be shown as `BASE_DIR`.

Windows and UNIX have similar file system syntax, but the MS-DOS command interpreter on Windows uses the backslash character (\) as a path separator, while UNIX and POSIX shells use the forward slash (/).

This document will use the POSIX shell convention of forward slashes.

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