I don't believe Unicon monkeys with pathnames before passing them on
to the C library functions, other than to detect poison nuls and fail
when they are present.  So the semantics of pathnames are mainly defined
by the C compiler's runtime libraries that are in use.

Windows seems to recognize both / and \ in pathnames, I think this is true
for both MSVC++ and GCC, and maybe for other compilers.  UNIX probably
requires / and does not accept \.

I don't recall whether, at a lower level, Windows filesystems allow
filenames with / in them, and whether UNIX filesystems allow filenames
with \ in them.  I can imagine the answer being different for different
filesystem types on both platforms.



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