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Re:Why Does Windows Really Use Backslash as Path Separator? by ChrisSD on Friday May 24, 2019 @06:04PM (#20005693)
As I recall at least some parts of the WinAPI had trouble if you used long paths (via "\\?\") and forward slash. I don't know if that's still true.
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Re:Why Does Windows Really Use Backslash as Path Separator? by kazinator on Friday May 24, 2019 @06:08PM (#20005722)
Indeed. "Windows API" is very broad; it encompasses all sorts of user-space middleware, some of which could very plausibly munge paths in ignorance of forward slashes.
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