4 Mar
2005
4 Mar
'05
6:48 p.m.
On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 11:57:29 -0500 (EST), cswiger <cswiger at widomaker.com> wrote:
All I want to know is who decided to use \ instead of
/ for
directory separators (warming up the tar and holding feathers).
My recollection of that is that Paul Allen took "credit" for the
directory pathname char choice ( (MS-DOS 1.0 didn't have
sub-directories, so it surely wasn't Tim Patterson). I also have a
dim memory that he apologized to the world for it and promised never
to do it again.
-ethan