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Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2012 07:57:48 -0400
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Subject: Re: Windows7 broke DRIVELETTER:/path on cmdline of non-cygwin exe
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On 4/4/2012 7:54 AM, Earnie Boyd wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 9:10 PM, Eliot Moss wrote:
>> Except you wrote F:/blah which is *not* a Windows
>
> Sorry to call you out on this but you're spreading misinformation.
> F:/blah is as much a Windows path as is F:\blah is.  Open you cmd.exe
> and type ``dir F:/blah'' to see that I'm correct.  It is only some
> stupid API like CreateProcess that insist on \ instead of / for the
> path delimiter.  Nearly everything else works with / instead of \.

I thank the community for the correction and for
increasing my knowledge of Windows.

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