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From: gtaylor at tnetconsulting.net (Grant Taylor)
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2019 19:59:00 -0600
Subject: [COFF] [TUHS] UNIX Backslash History
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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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