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

[Andrew Dalke]

Bob Gailer:
> Good question. Certainly later than:
>
> Microsoft Windows 2000 [Version 5.00.2195]
> (C) Copyright 1985-2000 Microsoft Corp.
>
> C:\>cd /samis
> The syntax of the command is incorrect.

The shell is parsing the line and interprets the "/" as a
command-line flag,  Try a relative path, like

  cd ./samis

                    Andrew
                    dalke at dalkescientific.com