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I think macOS still supports : for directory delimiting, a legacy of Classic Mac OS, though it has been deprecated for a while.
Windows NT supports both / and \.
: as a directory limiter is crazy ๐
(Never been an apple person)
Good to know that NT also supports / though. Somehow it never occured to me to try.