Interesting that I've never even tried to use forward slash on Windows command line. For my surprise it actually does work. I guess, coming from DOS, it seems unnatural for command line. Forward slash is for switches, backslash for paths. It just feels natural to use backslash for paths on Windows command line and batch and forward slash in bash or some other Linux shell.
Getting environment variables from the SET command is one of the basics of command line, something you don't have to tell me, but thanks anyway.
And, BTW, cd changes directory across drives very well as it has been doing from the DOS days, you just have to give it the /d switch. But you're right, pushd has its perks, compared to the classic cd.
