<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 7:55 PM, James Linder <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jam@tigger.ws" target="_blank">jam@tigger.ws</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">lets see unix uses /, well fum we’ll use \</blockquote></div><br>And while I'm at it: all versions of MS-DOS that supported \ *also supported /*. Microsoft even had a migration path planned out, using AVAILDEV and SWITCHAR to begin migrating to something more Unix-like. (I used to have a copy of their migration guide. Wish I still did; I suspect it would be an "everything you think you know is wrong" for many people here. For one, DOS was to be a multitasking OS by 4.0, with limited support in 3.x.)</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Users flatly refused, and Microsoft eventually gave up. But everything from MS-DOS 2.0 on has supported / as a path separator.<br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><div>brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates</div><div><a href="mailto:allbery.b@gmail.com" target="_blank">allbery.b@gmail.com</a> <a href="mailto:ballbery@sinenomine.net" target="_blank">ballbery@sinenomine.net</a></div><div>unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad <a href="http://sinenomine.net" target="_blank">http://sinenomine.net</a></div></div>
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