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On 8/5/2016 2:14 PM, Nellis, Kenneth wrote:
From: Erik Soderquist... DOS did a lot of things against already established conventions, such as using a backslash instead of a forward slash as the directory separator, just "to be different".Not just to be different, but to distinguish from slashes used as command qualifiers (a la VMS), don't you think?
Maybe ... but my first thought is that they did it to avoid copyright lawsuits ... Eliot Moss -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
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