From: gtaylor at tnetconsulting.net (Grant Taylor)
Subject: [COFF] [TUHS] UNIX Backslash History
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2019 19:59:00 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1a82938e-09c0-05d8-8066-5f5f270281e2@spamtrap.tnetconsulting.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABH=_VReuYZSM4sTCss5gjcbEZm9rzTaKoA2z7D1QRnikMKE2w@mail.gmail.com>
On 10/28/19 2:43 PM, Paul Winalski wrote:
rrrrrrrrrrr> Back in the days of stand-alone programs, physical switches
on the
> console were used to set program options.
This helps explain why the option is called a "switch" in some OSs.
--
Grant. . . .
unix || die
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2019-10-28 18:47 ` dave
2019-10-28 19:10 ` [COFF] Comparative promptology lars
2019-10-28 19:57 ` imp
2019-10-28 20:29 ` jpl.jpl
2019-10-29 10:30 ` skogtun
2019-10-29 10:32 ` skogtun
2019-10-30 8:19 ` tih
2019-10-31 1:19 ` [COFF] Fieldata characters (was: Comparative promptology) grog
2019-10-29 19:57 ` [COFF] Comparative promptology
2019-10-30 7:01 ` lars
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2019-10-28 23:13 ` krewat
2019-10-29 5:32 ` lars
2019-10-28 20:43 ` [COFF] [TUHS] UNIX Backslash History paul.winalski
2019-10-28 23:17 ` krewat
2019-10-31 1:59 ` gtaylor [this message]
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