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

[Bengt Richter]

On Sat, 27 Sep 2003 09:47:47 +0100, Stephen Horne <$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$@$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$.co.uk> wrote:

>On Fri, 26 Sep 2003 14:44:30 +0200, Ronald Oussoren
><oussoren at cistron.nl> wrote:
>
>>The fun you can have on windows, I've  
>>managed to create files that cannot be removed :-)
>
>I've had that one simply by saving a web page in IE. Seriously
>annoying.
>
Do you mean windows exploder will not even delete it with right-click, delete?
Or doesn't it show up at all? (how do you know it exists? dos dir?)

Regards,
Bengt Richter