All DOS and WinXY variants do understand the forward slash, even if M$ established the convention of using the butt ugly backslash as directory separator on their systems by making COMMAND.COM (and only COMMAND.COM; CMD.EXE may also have inherited this boneheadedness, not sure) not understand forward ones and using them as program option prefix as opposed to the Unix' dash. You can write unlink "C:/Windows/Win.Com"; in your Perl/Win32 scripts and it'll work as expected (or not expected, as it were).

Makeshifts last the longest.

In reply to Re^2: compiling miniperl ( unresolved external symbol _PL_op_mutex ) by Aristotle
in thread compiling miniperl ( unresolved external symbol _PL_op_mutex ) by PodMaster

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