IIRC (it's been a while), the native NT API does _not_ accept backslashes; win32 converts forward slashes to backslashes when passing along filenames to NT. The

IIRC (it's been a while), the native NT API does _not_ accept backslashes; win32 converts forward slashes to backslashes when passing along filenames to NT. The distinction doesn't matter very much, though, since very few people use the NT native API.