When did Windows start accepting forward slash as a path separator?

Thu Sep 25 23:50:41 EDT 2003

On 25 Sep 2003 16:50:49 -0700, in article
<b16e4ef7.0309251550.724a57f at posting.google.com>, Stephen Ferg wrote:

> When did Windows start accepting the forward slash as a path separator
> character?

Even MS-DOS 3.3 would accept '/'; the command-line utilities were
programmed to use only '\' without some start-up parameter (PATHSEP?).
Microsoft removed that feature in v4.0 or 5.0.  The "kernel" didn't care.

The Windows kernels are the same.  The internals of the operating system
accept either.