in reply to backticks on windows (ActiveState)

Does anyone know how to get the backtick operator to interpret path separators the way system() does? (system() changes path separators to the appropriate operating-system-specific separator.)
You're misdiagnosing the problem, observe 

C:\Perl>perl
print `bin/perl -V:perl`;
system 'bin/perl -V:perl';
__END__
perl='perl';
perl='perl';

C:\Perl>

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