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Re: Windows directories not recognized by ruby?

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> Windows NT *at least* since Vista, but probably XP already, and maybe
> even the original NT 3.51, support the forward slash in the command
> line.

ForwardSlash works since MSDOS !

From wikipedia "Backslash" :

"The Windows API can accept either the backslash or slash to separate 
directory and file components of a path, but the Microsoft convention is 
to use a backslash, and APIs that return paths put backslash in.[7] 
MS-DOS 2.0 copied the hierarchical file system from Unix and thus used 
the forward slash, but (possibly on the insistence of IBM) added the 
backslash to allow paths to be typed into the command shell while 
retaining compatibility with MS-DOS 1.0 and CP/M where the slash was the 
command-line option indicator (i.e. as in typing "dir/w" to give the 
"wide" option to the "dir" command).[8] Although the command shell was 
the only part of MS-DOS that required this, the use of backslash in 
filenames was propagated to most other parts of the user interface"

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Windows directories not recognized by ruby? "Kalman H." <kalmanh@gmail.com> - 2011-04-07 09:03 -0500
  Re: Windows directories not recognized by ruby? Nikolai Weibull <now@bitwi.se> - 2011-04-07 09:23 -0500
  Re: Windows directories not recognized by ruby? paul h <paul@hollyer.me.uk> - 2011-04-07 07:28 -0700
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