diff --git a/src/babashka/fs.cljc b/src/babashka/fs.cljc
index e9072a0..cbe2fd2 100644
--- a/src/babashka/fs.cljc
+++ b/src/babashka/fs.cljc
@@ -773,7 +773,8 @@
   (-> path split-ext last))
 
 (defn split-paths
-  "Splits a string joined by the OS-specific path-seperator into a vec of paths."
+  "Splits a path list given as a string joined by the OS-specific path-separator into a vec of paths.
+  On UNIX systems, the separator is ':', on Microsoft Windows systems it is ';'."
   [^String joined-paths]
   (mapv path (.split joined-paths path-separator)))