Why Does Windows Really Use Backslash as Path Separator?

Re:Why Does Windows Really Use Backslash as Path Separator? by ape4 on Friday May 24, 2019 @05:14PM (#20005334)

Now Windows is embracing Linux with WSL and of course URLs use forward slashes. It would be so great if they switched to forward slashes.

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Re:Why Does Windows Really Use Backslash as Path Separator? by optymizer on Friday May 24, 2019 @05:18PM (#20005367)

afaik Windows has supported forward slashes for a very long time (I want to say at least since WIN 2K).

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Re:Why Does Windows Really Use Backslash as Path Separator? by kragen on Saturday May 25, 2019 @01:44AM (#20007333)

Since MS-DOS 2.0, when MS-DOS added a hierarchical filesystem.

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Re:Why Does Windows Really Use Backslash as Path Separator? by terandle on Friday May 24, 2019 @06:17PM (#20005782)

The newline mess is a bigger problem imo

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Re:Why Does Windows Really Use Backslash as Path Separator? by oaiey on Saturday May 25, 2019 @02:32AM (#20007455)

Yeah. Unix should finally fix it :). CarriageReturn + LineFeed. That is correct :)

Inventing new ways after the typewriter. Tss. These young people :)

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Re:Why Does Windows Really Use Backslash as Path Separator? by maxxxxx on Friday May 24, 2019 @06:09PM (#20005733)

You can use forward slash quite a bit but there are a lot of exceptions.

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