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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

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