Michael Rigby-Jones wrote:

> The argument was that forward slashes get converted to back slashes, so
> they are equivalent.  

Well, more specifically, the original argument was that this is so in the
Windows API, which AFAIK is correct. The discussion here was all about
cmd.exe, which is a different story.

> This is clearly not the case for the leading forward slash.

AFAICT all the inconsistent behavior around forward slashes that we've been
discussing here is introduced by cmd.exe, not by the Windows API. 

For example, in 4nt.exe (another Windows command processor), I can use "cd
/dell" from inside c:\windows and it works as intended.

(However, "dir /dell" still doesn't work from inside c:\windows, because it
also follows the general Windows convention and uses the forward slash as a
parameter separator, therefore looking at "/dell" as arguments to "dir",
not as a path specification.)

Gerhard

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