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No idea when this happened but you can also use forward slashes in Windows. So typing c:/users into the Explorer address bar works.
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You can even mix and match! C:\tmp/file.txt is valid. Very helpful for cross-os compatibility.
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Does only windows do this or do Linux and mac work with both slashes too ?
I thought linux was pretty strict with this
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This only works because MS gave in and added some path normalization. The actual path-component separator is still backslash. Sometimes it doesn’t work right, like in cmd if you try and do cd and use forward slashes then autocomplete won’t work even though the command itself works fine with forward slashes.
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