4 Mar
2005
4 Mar
'05
9:18 a.m.
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).
'/' was already taken up for the command line switch introducer character
(not '-' since CP/M and DOS were originally inspired from the culture of
DEC OS's rather than the UNIX culture).
MS