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From: jacob.ritorto@gmail.com (Jacob Ritorto)
Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2016 18:27:02 -0400
Subject: [TUHS] MS-DOS
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>
> Marc Rochkind scripsit:
>
> > Since the forward slash was used for command-line options, paths used a
> > backwards slash.



Does anyone besides me bristle at the term "forward slash?"  In my day
(although I'm under fifty), we called them slash and backslash.  The M$
culture seems to encourage this redundant advective as normal parlance.

--jake
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