4 Mar
2005
4 Mar
'05
9:06 a.m.
At 10:57 AM 3/4/2005, cswiger wrote:
All I want to know is who decided to use \ instead of /
for
directory separators (warming up the tar and holding feathers).
It's discussed in some of the linked references in the Slashdot
discussion. One suggestion was that / was used as a prefix for
command modifiers (/X /A etc.) so it would be slightly harder
to parse. Certainly command arguments preceded folders, both
in CP/M and QDOS.
Not many people know this, but at low levels in old Mac OS,
they used ":" as a folder separator in file specifiers.
- John