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Wild cards

    08-Apr-93 16:12:28
Sb: #34032-Wild cards
Fm: michael heinz 71133,76
To: Jonathan Blackwell 71732,3311
Do you know why DOS uses the "\" instead of the "/" – it was because the first version of DOS had a flat directory (no subdirectories) and IBM decided to use "/" to separate command line options ("dir /w /one") So, when they added sub-directories, they chose "\" because they didn't want to confuse users. I realize you don't care, but there it is anyway.