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  From: Daryl Tester <dt@picknowl.com.au>
  To  : Linux SA <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
  Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2000 19:19:18 +1030

Re: Operating systems.

Dan Shearer wrote:

> As to "\" vs "/", it was just a perverse choice I think.

That was point 2, but I don't have any references to back that up.
C'est la net.

> There's a DOS int 0x21 call to switch it to "/",

Not familiar with that one, but that section of my brain paged out
to disk a long time ago.

> which is what people who had to work with
> both Xenix and DOS sometimes did.

I gave up on Xenix after tickling too many (well, two) code generation
bugs in their C compiler (and MS Basic offered you all the advantages
of MS Basic with none of the advantages of running it under Unix(/Xenix)
- I could never figure out how to disable ^C processing without editing
the binary, which made it useless for the BBS I was trying to write for
someone).


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Regards,
  Daryl Tester,  Software Wrangler and Bit Herder, IOCANE Pty. Ltd.

"You shouldn't mix meditation with management.  The mind gets too empty."
  -- Dilbert

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