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From: Grant Taylor via TUHS <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
To: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] UNIX Backslash History
Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2019 17:01:44 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <51f2d838-d097-a93f-b44d-9c670d206d2b@tnetconsulting.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANV78LQa=VTZAMmVeRphTvrkxrkrAzgoU_-KqtdgqfWY2uUZJg@mail.gmail.com>

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On 10/27/19 2:49 PM, Charles Anthony wrote:
> /home/CAnthony     >user_dir_dir>User>CAnthony
Is there any relation between Multics' use of ">" as a directory 
separator and MS-DOS's default use of ">" at the end of the command prompt?



-- 
Grant. . . .
unix || die


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  reply	other threads:[~2019-10-27 23:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-10-27 20:31 Doug McIlroy
2019-10-27 20:42 ` Richard Salz
2019-10-27 20:49   ` Charles Anthony
2019-10-27 23:01     ` Grant Taylor via TUHS [this message]
2019-10-28  1:11       ` Steve Nickolas
2019-10-28 12:00         ` Michael Kjörling
2019-10-28 13:44           ` Clem Cole
2019-10-28 15:08           ` Steve Nickolas
2019-10-28 18:47             ` Dave Horsfall
2019-10-28 20:43               ` Paul Winalski
2019-10-27 20:46 ` Bakul Shah
2019-10-28 17:36   ` Anthony Martin
2019-10-28 18:17     ` Charles Anthony
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2019-10-28 15:51 Noel Chiappa
2019-10-27 21:31 Noel Chiappa
2019-10-27 21:51 ` Charles Anthony
2019-10-26  9:39 Caipenghui

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