Apptech wrote:
>>> In DOS and Microsoft Windows, either the backslash or 
>>> slash can be used as the delimiter between directories 
>>> and filenames in path expressions.
> 
> Fails in the WIN XP home I just tried it on, either at start 
> or in middle.
> 
>     DIR   /ZZZ                x
>     DIR    \ZZZ/YYY     x
> 
> Where yyy is either a subdirectory or a file name

It doesn't work with the 'dir' command, because that program scans for 
arguments first, and gets confused when it finds the "argument 
introduction" character with no valid argument after it.

But Windows *does* do the translation in the file APIs, so if you type:

	dir "c:/zzz"

it'll work just the same as with a backslash.

But DOS never did this, in my recollection.  I'm going to change the 
Wikipedia article.
-- 
Timothy J. Weber
http://timothyweber.org
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