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Now Windows is embracing Linux with WSL and of course URLs use forward slashes. It would be so great if they switched to forward slashes.


afaik Windows has supported forward slashes for a very long time (I want to say at least since WIN 2K).

Discussion here: https://bytes.com/topic/python/answers/23123-when-did-window...


Since MS-DOS 2.0, when MS-DOS added a hierarchical filesystem.


The newline mess is a bigger problem imo


Yeah. Unix should finally fix it :). CarriageReturn + LineFeed. That is correct :)

Inventing new ways after the typewriter. Tss. These young people :)


You can use forward slash quite a bit but there are a lot of exceptions.




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