Re: A simple hate today.

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From: Peter da Silva
Subject: Re: A simple hate today.
Date: 01:31 on 28 May 2006
On May 27, 2006, at 6:24 PM, Aaron J. Grier wrote:
> On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 01:40:39PM -0500, Peter da Silva wrote:
>> "-?" is a MSDOS-ism.

> you mean of course "/?"  :)

 From MS-DOS 2.11 through MS-DOS 5 there was a variable "SWITCHAR". If 
it was set to "/" (the default) the switch character was "/" and the 
path element separator was "\". If it was set to "-" then the switch 
character was "-" and the path element separator was "/".

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