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DBasics Software Company (dbasics@pacificnet.net) wrote:
|> dbasics@pacificnet.net (DBasics Software Company) wrote:

|> Why does UNIX use forward slashes and DOS uses backslashes
|> in their addressing?  I suppose it so us programmers can  

|> (1)  keep gainfully employed because someone asks that question

|> (2) When they created the operating systems, keeping up with the
|> Jones's was not fashionable and being an individual was

|> (3)  The guy who came up with the forward slash addressing in UNIX is
|> a disgruntled DOS system developer that got fired without severance
|> pay.

|> (4)  Or someone had a dream that Craig would screw up something called
|> an article on something  called the Internet about something
|> concerning his address.  Sounded like that someone shouldn't have
|> eaten before going to bed  ..... but what the heck .... if the dream
|> was real, we can put egg on this guy, named Craig's, face.

(5) Because when DOS adapted its hierarchal file system from Unix, the /
was already in use as the traditional options indicator.  So they needed
something else to do the job.

At the systems call level (open, etc.), DOS has always accepted both.
But many of the earlier DOS programs would never pass a argument
beginning with a / down to the system, they would parse it for program
options.
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