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Re: [RFC] Do not treat '\' as escape character on MinGW Windows hosts
> > (gdb) file c:\\foo\\bar.exe
> > Reading symbols from c:\foo\bar.exe...done.
>
> Why not just use a "forward" slash?
It's not always that easy - A lot of times, the user wants to copy/paste
a path that's been printed by another tool. Also, the typical Windows
user seems to think that he should be able to use a valid Windows path
(which I agree)...
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Joel