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use / everywhere because Perl at Windows understand it very well unlike Windows itself

I've been told (on PerlMonks) that Windows system calls understand / just fine. It's the individual tools and shell commands that don't.

In fact, it seems the shell tools understand / just fine if it's in quotes:

G:\>md /test
The syntax of the command is incorrect.

G:\>md "/test"

G:\>copy nul /test/file
The syntax of the command is incorrect.

G:\>copy nul "/test/file"
        1 file(s) copied.

G:\>dir /test
Invalid switch - "".

G:\>dir "/test"
 Volume in drive G is CLFS01-USR-N
 Volume Serial Number is 5C24-AC1F

 Directory of G:\test

2007/06/08  09:21 AM    <DIR>          .
2007/06/08  09:21 AM    <DIR>          ..
2007/06/08  09:21 AM                 0 file
               1 File(s)              0 bytes
               2 Dir(s)  81,590,624,256 bytes free
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In reply to Re^2: ActivePERL is the devil? by ikegami
in thread ActivePERL is the devil? by james734

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