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

[Keith F Weatherhead]

Fairlight wrote:

> 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.

Actually thru 3.0 (CP/M Plus) there were no directories, AFAIR. 
There were USER AREAS (User 0 was common and User 1 thru 15 were 
unique areas.  If you wanted to share a file it had to be in USER 0.

Keith
> 
> 
>>>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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