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Re:I'm “still afraid to use spaces in file names” years old by WalterBright on Thursday November 11, 2021 @08:11PM (#29195262)
Sometimes / works as a path separator in Windows, sometimes it doesn't. It's not predictable.

I never use / on Windows as a result.

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Re:I'm “still afraid to use spaces in file names” years old by ygra on Saturday November 13, 2021 @03:07AM (#29208256)
The only common place where it doesn't work is in CMD for executing programs and as arguments for built-in commands. Everything else goes directly to the relevant APIs which don't care about / or \.

These days using CMD instead of PowerShell should be rare enough and PowerShell certainly doesn't mind the slashes.

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