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Re: [OT] Directory separator symbol


On 12/5/2012 11:39 AM, Andrey Repin wrote:
> it does not make a difference between "/"
> and "\" on the very low level

Yes it does. NT itself cares very much what kind of slash you use. It's the
Win32 layer that does the translation.

> Anyone know a filesystem or operating system, which is using directory
> separator symbols other than "/" ?

Some operating systems didn't even have directories. If you're interested in
truly bizarre filesystem names, look at VMS.

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