Date: Sun, 30 May 1999 12:18:32 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: frontslash or backslash?
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On 29 May 1999, Jeremy L. Buchmann wrote:

> All of the DJGPP docs I have seen show paths with frontslashes, like:
> "C:/dos/"
> 
> Does DJGPP take this into account, or do you really have to use
> backslashes like:
> "C:\\dos\\"

You can use both.

The kernels of DOS and Windows support both styles of slashes, so the
OS itself doesn't care.  It's only some losing applications written
for DOS/Windows that don't support forward slashes and create an
illusion that the OS doesn't support them as well.  One such losing
application is COMMAND.COM.

DJGPP doesn't include such losing applications (if you find one,
please report it as a bug).