diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 346b828ecb..e4d43c8b4f 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+Fri Feb  9 22:54:57 2001  WATANABE Hirofumi  <eban@ruby-lang.org>
+
+	* ruby.c (ruby_init_loadpath): convert '\\' to '/'
+	  before finding executable file path.
+
 Thu Feb  8 21:27:24 2001  WATANABE Hirofumi  <eban@ruby-lang.org>
 
 	* lib/mkmf.rb (install_rb): fix handling of relative path.
diff --git a/ruby.c b/ruby.c
index 2438bd9b99..5d92800d3a 100644
--- a/ruby.c
+++ b/ruby.c
@@ -214,13 +214,23 @@ ruby_init_loadpath()
 #elif defined(DJGPP)
     extern char *__dos_argv0;
     strncpy(libpath, __dos_argv0, FILENAME_MAX);
+#define CharNext(p) ((p) + mblen(p, MB_CUR_MAX))
 #elif defined(__EMX__)
     _execname(libpath, FILENAME_MAX);
 #endif
-    p = strrchr(libpath, '\\');
+
+#ifndef CharNext		/* defined as CharNext[AW] on Windows. */
+#define CharNext(p) ((p) + 1)
+#endif
+
+    for (p = libpath; *p; p = CharNext(p))
+	if (*p == '\\')
+	    *p = '/';
+
+    p = strrchr(libpath, '/');
     if (p) {
 	*p = 0;
-	if (p-libpath > 3 && !strcasecmp(p-4, "\\bin")) {
+	if (p-libpath > 3 && !strcasecmp(p-4, "/bin")) {
 	    p -= 4;
 	    *p = 0;
 	}
@@ -229,14 +239,6 @@ ruby_init_loadpath()
 	p = libpath + 1;
     }
 
-#if !defined(__CYGWIN32__)
-#ifndef CharNext		/* defined as CharNext[AW] on Windows. */
-#define CharNext(p) ((p) + 1)
-#endif
-    for (p = libpath; *p; p = CharNext(p))
-	if (*p == '\\')
-	    *p = '/';
-#endif
     rest = FILENAME_MAX - (p - libpath);
 
 #define RUBY_RELATIVE(path) (strncpy(p, (path), rest), libpath)
diff --git a/version.h b/version.h
index 14aa099c84..cd09b879e2 100644
--- a/version.h
+++ b/version.h
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 #define RUBY_VERSION "1.7.0"
-#define RUBY_RELEASE_DATE "2001-02-08"
+#define RUBY_RELEASE_DATE "2001-02-09"
 #define RUBY_VERSION_CODE 170
-#define RUBY_RELEASE_CODE 20010208
+#define RUBY_RELEASE_CODE 20010209