So what IS the right direction of the path’s slash (/ or \) under Windows?
Windows is the bastard child of operating systems in this regard, but a lot of APIs will accept forward slashes as well. On Windows, a file path looks like this: C:\Users\jsmith\Documents\file.txt On a Unix-like system (including Mac OS X and Linux), the same path would look like this: /home/jsmith/Documents/file.txt A URL, standardized in RFC 1738, … Read more