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Re:Why Does Windows Really Use Backslash as Path Separator? by gothroach on Friday May 24, 2019 @04:52PM (#20005191)
I don't recall a time when you could use / in Windows file or directory names.
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Re:Why Does Windows Really Use Backslash as Path Separator? by jolmg on Friday May 24, 2019 @05:01PM (#20005262)
So Windows forbids other characters in names besides the directory separator?

EDIT: Apparently:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1976007/what-characters-...

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Re:Why Does Windows Really Use Backslash as Path Separator? by jonhohle on Friday May 24, 2019 @06:14PM (#20005763)
IIRC, different APIs in Windows handle special characters for filenames differently.

This was probably around the Windows 98 timeframe, but I remember several instances when extracting zips (probably WAREZ) where the file that was written contained characters that Explorer couldn't handle correctly. It wouldn't allow moving those files to the Recycling Bin, but would typically allow renaming the portion before the extension. I had a collection of `zzzz.???` files for a long time.

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