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Re:/ vs. \ confuses me a lot, how do you remember them? by 9wzYQbTYsAIc on Sunday October 09, 2022 @02:13AM (#33138655)
Also, path separation in URIs uses / as a path separator but // to identify the authority

https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3986#section-3

Re:/ vs. \ confuses me a lot, how do you remember them? by schoen on Monday October 10, 2022 @12:52AM (#33147896)
I think Windows also does that with file sharing where it uses remote references like "\\host\path".
Re:/ vs. \ confuses me a lot, how do you remember them? by 9wzYQbTYsAIc on Monday October 10, 2022 @02:07AM (#33148299)
And is it a \ or / between domain and username in Windows?

Trial and error, every time on that one.