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From: stewart@serissa.com (Lawrence Stewart)
Subject: [TUHS] Dash options
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2017 13:01:11 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7A4E703F-F052-47D6-8097-BB0A0B27A8E1@serissa.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171128111801.C05F31F936@orac.inputplus.co.uk>

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My theory was always that the Designers had the good sense to use ‘/‘ for a directory separator just because it was a lower case character and thus vastly easier to type than ‘>’.
-L



  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-11-28 18:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-11-28  5:51 Jon Steinhart
2017-11-28  6:05 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-11-28  6:49   ` Andrew Warkentin
2017-11-28 11:18     ` Ralph Corderoy
2017-11-28 11:49       ` Michael Kjörling
2017-11-28 12:46         ` Ralph Corderoy
2017-11-28 18:01       ` Lawrence Stewart [this message]
2017-11-28 19:36     ` Paul Winalski
2017-11-28 20:03       ` Clem Cole
2017-11-28  6:28 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2017-11-29 19:16   ` Steffen Nurpmeso
     [not found]     ` <20171204054651.GA17671@eureka.lemis.com>
     [not found]       ` <20171204215701.l9Pvr%steffen@sdaoden.eu>
2017-12-05 13:22         ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2017-12-07  5:15           ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2017-11-28 13:19 Noel Chiappa
2017-11-28 18:20 ` Clem Cole
2017-11-28 21:56   ` Dave Horsfall
     [not found] <mailman.376.1511899437.9955.tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
2017-11-28 21:30 ` Paul Ruizendaal
2017-11-29  1:23 Doug McIlroy
2017-11-29  1:37 ` George Michaelson
2017-11-29  2:22 ` Charles Anthony
2017-11-29 14:03 Noel Chiappa
2017-11-29 20:29 ` Charles Anthony

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