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Re: Windows7 broke DRIVELETTER:/path on cmdline of non-cygwin exe


On 4/4/2012 7:54 AM, Earnie Boyd wrote:
On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 9:10 PM, Eliot Moss wrote:
Except you wrote F:/blah which is *not* a Windows

Sorry to call you out on this but you're spreading misinformation. F:/blah is as much a Windows path as is F:\blah is. Open you cmd.exe and type ``dir F:/blah'' to see that I'm correct. It is only some stupid API like CreateProcess that insist on \ instead of / for the path delimiter. Nearly everything else works with / instead of \.

I thank the community for the correction and for increasing my knowledge of Windows.

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