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Article #50Re: Language "ranking" based on posts to users groups
From: Ambrose Li
Date: Wed, 27 Dec 1995 19:39
Date: Wed, 27 Dec 1995 19:39
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In article <4bec1s$fr1@gabi.gabi-soft.fr>, J. Kanze <kanze@gabi-soft.fr> wrote:
>At the systems call level (open, etc.), DOS has always accepted both.
>But many of the earlier DOS programs would never pass a argument
>beginning with a / down to the system, they would parse it for program
>options.
Not quite right. Even new DOS programs (and Windows programs)
parse the filenames and never pass the / down to the system.
And not just on the command line: they do that even to the
filenames the user input from within the program.
--
Ambrose C. Li ~{@h>tHY~} ~ byron is my Linux box; io.org is my
~ `Internet service bureau', not where
<@io.org:acli@byron.net4> ~ I work. MS Windows will not become
<ai337@freenet.toronto.on.ca> ~ the OS standard; Linux will be there.
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Newsgroups: comp.lang.basic.visual,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.pascal,comp.lang.tcl,comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.smalltalk,comp.lang.perl,comp.lang.asm.x86,comp.lang.fortran,comp.lang.postscript,comp.lang.java,comp.lang.clipper,comp.lang.forth,comp.lang.cobol,comp.lang.rexx,comp.lang.eiffel,comp.lang.python,comp.lang.lisp,comp.lang.scheme Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!byron.net4.io.org!acli From: acli@byron.net4.io.org (Ambrose Li) Subject: Re: Language "ranking" based on posts to users groups Distribution: inet Message-ID: <DK9Fx2.8vp@byron.net4.io.org> Organization: private site, Scarborough, Canada Date: Wed, 27 Dec 1995 19:39:02 GMT References: <4at4t0$j5j@garden.csc.calpoly.edu> <4ba8k8$2vg@zippy.cais.net> <4bc95m$gis@zippy.cais.net> <4bec1s$fr1@gabi.gabi-soft.fr>