| | When did Windows start accepting forward slash as a path separator? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) |
 | | At one time, it was accepted as a truism that Windows (like MS-DOS) was different from Unix because Windows used the backslash as the path separator character, whereas Unix used the forward slash. |
 | | But now, among a small group of cognoscenti, it is a truism that this is a myth, and that Windows will allow you to use either the forward or the backward slash as a pathname separator. |
 | | I hypothesize that originally Windows accepted only the backslash, and then at some time it changed to accept the forward slash as well. |
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