Re: Slashes (Re: PATH vs. Path ([Fwd: Returned mail: see transcript for details]

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2005 08:06:20 +0100
> From: Alessandro Vesely <address@hidden>
> 
> > cmd.exe will work with / if you quote the argument.
> > 
> > C:\>dir "c:/Software Center/Common Files"
> >  Volume in drive C is MyDriveC
> >  Volume Serial Number is 70EB-1340
> > 
> >  Directory of c:\Software Center\Common Files
> > 
> 
> Command chokes happily:
>   D:\tmp\TOOLS>dir "C:/CYGWIN/ETC/X11/FS"

On what version of Windows?  I tried on Windows 9x, and found that
quoted arguments with forward slashes do work with command.com there.