From: MenTaLguY <mental@...>
Date: 2005-12-30T07:40:52+09:00
Subject: Re: Path Separator and Windows

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On Fri, 2005-12-30 at 06:48 +0900, Bob Showalter wrote:

> How did DOS (and then Windows) ever decide to use backslash I wonder?

By the time they decided to add support for directories to DOS, / was
already in common use as an option specifier (similar to - on Unix).

-mental

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