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in thread XP and slashes?

The underlying Win32 API accepts either / or \, and has done since at lease NT 3.1, however some applications only take \. cmd.exe is one of them, of which cd is a built-in. MS-DOS and PC-DOS used to be the same (although I doubt there can be many people using the 16-bit DOS VMs any more).

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Re^4: XP and slashes?
by ikegami (Patriarch) on Apr 05, 2009 at 22:24 UTC

    however some applications only take \. cmd.exe is one of them, of which cd is a built-in.

    I proved otherwise earlier.
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