Re: [Groff] Strange error messages from Groff 1.22.3

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2014 19:46:22 +0000
> From: Keith Marshall <address@hidden>
> CC: address@hidden
> 
> Perhaps Eli's explanation is overly simplistic.  In reality, cmd.exe
> doesn't process those directory separators, no matter whether they are
> specified as slashes, (as POSIX and $DEITY mandate), or reversed
> slashes, (as Microsoft recommend); that is actually the responsibility
> of the application which is invoked.

Except when an internal command of cmd.exe is being invoked.

> The real problem here is that Windows users tend to be hung-up on the
> (bogus) notion that they must use reversed slashes, and will tend to do
> so

At least for me, the single most important reason to use backslashes
is that then I can use TAB-completion on the cmd.exe command line.