Microsoft should never have used a backslash as a path separator. But they did because they wanted to use the forward slash for options (like in VMS).
Wade.
This is, of course, actually a Windows bug.
Microsoft should never have used a backslash as a path separator. But they did because they wanted to use the forward slash for options (like in VMS).
Wade. Just Add Story http://justaddstory.wordpress.com/
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Blame Kildall.
http://xdal.org/~benoit/rants/backslash
:-) Cheers, Scott. (Who sees from the internal link that maybe we should blame IBM and ALGOL, too.) |