Hi,

> DOS "system calls" have always allowed BOTH \ AND / as delimiters.
> AFAIK this is still true in Windows.

DOS and Windows have always internally accepted \ and /. The command line
interpretor, however, only accepts \.

Also note that under windows filenames of the form:

\\server\share\directory\file or //server/share/directory/file

are also perfectly legal.

Dave Hylands