OT: DOS/Windows and slashes (was Re: Windows XP Pro andPossiblefilePro Bug)

[Kenneth Brody]

Fairlight wrote:
[...]
> I don't know why they didn't think to do something more sensible in the
> first place.  CP/M had forward slash pathnames, didn't it?  And that dates

The last time I used CP/M (early 1980's), it didn't have subdirectories.

[...]
> COMMAND.COM doesn't actually care--it's the programs that care.  I can use
> the old 16bit command shell with forward slash pathing with perl just fine,
> for example.

Well, it does care if you're running a command that's internal to it,
such as DIR or COPY.

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