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On 4/3/2012 7:10 PM, Eliot Moss wrote:
>
> Except you wrote F:/blah which is *not* a Windows
> path. F:\blah is ...

Actually, forward slashes are legal path separators in Windows, and have 
been going back to the earliest days of MS-DOS: http://goo.gl/rm1EJ

This is why you can't create a file or folder in Windows containing a 
forward slash to this day.  The compatibility behavior documented in 
that blog post requires that Microsoft reserve this character as 
"special" as long as the behavior exists.

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