4 Mar
2005
4 Mar
'05
11:34 a.m.
Chuck wrote:
All I want to know is who decided to use \ instead of
/ for
directory separators (warming up the tar and holding feathers).
Dunno who, but it was done because MS-DOS/IBM-DOS inherited the
use of "/" for command line options from CP/M, which in turn got
it from various DEC operating systems.
Eric