> Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2014 19:46:22 +0000 > From: Keith Marshall <keith.d.marsh...@ntlworld.com> > CC: groff@gnu.org > > Perhaps Eli's explanation is overly simplistic. In reality, cmd.exe > doesn't process those directory separators, no matter whether they are > specified as slashes, (as POSIX and $DEITY mandate), or reversed > slashes, (as Microsoft recommend); that is actually the responsibility > of the application which is invoked.
Except when an internal command of cmd.exe is being invoked. > The real problem here is that Windows users tend to be hung-up on the > (bogus) notion that they must use reversed slashes, and will tend to do > so At least for me, the single most important reason to use backslashes is that then I can use TAB-completion on the cmd.exe command line.
