no, I don't have an alternate solution

`\` **is** correct on Windows. so, replacing `\`'s with `/`'s isn't the correct solution. this code would no longer work on `cmd` (MS-DOS), which expects `\`... (assuming everything else in the code is cross platform)

the confusion/problem arises when you start using different **shells**, where consider `\` as escapement, which node doesn't care about...