[tex-live] TeX Live 2013 : Why does "Kpsewhich" give output in wrong format on Windows

[Philip Taylor]

Endeavouring to find out for myself where XeTeX's predefined
\lang@<whatever>s were stored, I typed (at the TeX Live
command prompt) :

	kpsewhich language.def

The answer given was :

	c:/texlive/2013/texmf-var/tex/generic/config/language.def

When I then attempted to paste this into a CD command, I was told :

	The directory name is invalid.

Why does Kpsewhich not respect platform conventions for the
direction of slashes in file paths ?

Philip Taylor
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Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601]
Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.

C:\Windows\system32>kpsewhich language.def
c:/texlive/2013/texmf-var/tex/generic/config/language.def

C:\Windows\system32>cd
c:/texlive/2013/texmf-var/tex/generic/config/language.def

The directory name is invalid.

C:\Windows\system32>
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