4 Mar
2005
4 Mar
'05
9:13 a.m.
cswiger wrote:
All I want to know is who decided to use \ instead of /
for
directory separators (warming up the tar and holding feathers).
--Chuck
I think CP/M had used the '/' in the name CP/M so they had to use
'\'
instead. :)
I have not used CP/M but it could be the fact / was used as a flag for
single letter
comand line arguments and a disk ( only floppies ) was supported with NO
file
directories so you had no problem with '\' for paths. Still you can't
tar Mr Gates
since part of the blame was intel suporting 8080 translating programs to
convert
8080 source code into 8088 code and having to keep all the fun features like
CP/M.
Ben alias woodelf