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		ChrisSD on May 24, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why Does Windows Really Use Backslash as Path Sepa... 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.

kazinator on May 24, 2019 [–]

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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