It has nothing to do with what ActiveState did or didn't do. The
DOS/Windows command interpreter (command.com/cmd.exe) uses '\' as the
path separator however the operating system itself is able to use '/' as
the path separator.
Sorry, I just tried it on my machine here (NT4), and doing
cd winnt/system32
from the C: directory gets me into the C:\winnt directory, whereas doing
cd winnt\system32
That's exactly what John said. ;) The command interpreter, what you are using above, is dumb and doesn't know the difference. The OS does though and since Perl talks to the OS itself, it works as expected.
James
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