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Fixes #557. Adding note regarding forward slash.
Jun 12, 2017
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Fix my PR comments - typos
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13 changes: 6 additions & 7 deletions src/docs/cmdstan-guide/getting-started.tex
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Expand Up @@ -186,11 +186,11 @@ \subsection{Compiling a Stan Program}
to an executable.)

A Stan program must be in a file with the file extension
\code{.stan}. To create an executable from a Stan program,
\code{make} will be called with the name of the executable as its
argument. For Mac and Linux, it is the name of the Stan program with
the \code{.stan} omitted. For Windows, replace \code{.stan} with
\code{.exe}.
\code{.stan}. To create an executable from a Stan program, \code{make}
will be called with the name of the executable as its argument. For
Mac and Linux, it is the name of the Stan program with the
\code{.stan} omitted. For Windows, replace \code{.stan} with \code{.exe},
and make sure that the path is given with slashes and not backslashes.

To build the Bernoulli example, use the following command for Mac and
Linux:
Expand All @@ -202,7 +202,7 @@ \subsection{Compiling a Stan Program}
\end{quote}
%
For Windows, the command is the same with the addition of \code{.exe}
at the end of the target:
at the end of the target (note: use forward slashes):
\begin{quote}
\begin{Verbatim}[fontshape=sl]
> make examples/bernoulli/bernoulli.exe
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -959,4 +959,3 @@ \subsection{Configuring Command-Line Options}
%% matrices) or may be misformulated. In a future version of Stan, we
%% plan to rank such messages by severity and turn this one off by
%% default so as not to needlessly worry users.