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On Tue, 7 Dec 2004 19:21:02 -0300, Thiago Bastos wrote:
> > Windows does, but Windows CE does not.  It demands backslashes only.
> 
> Actually only the Windows NT branch accepts normal slashes (Win2k, WinXP,
> etc). The old Win95 branch demands backslashes as well... thanks god I won't
> ever have to use them again :-)
> 
News to me.
I know that there are a handful of APIs that use '/' in Windows, however the
bulk of the msvcrt runtime uses backslash.

I find that converting Lua function parameters with back slash to
forward slash helpful.

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