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

[Fairlight]

Y'all catch dis heeyah?  Kenneth Brody been jivin' 'bout like:
> 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.

Mine did.  Pretty darned sure of that, too...like 99%.  It was the CP/M
that came with Applied Engineering's z80+ card for the Apple ][e.

> > 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.

You know--I never knew before you said that and I checked win95 to see that
those were actually rolled in.  Interesting.

mark->
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