Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!spool.mu.edu!news.nd.edu!mentor.cc.purdue.edu!zeus.mgmt.purdue.edu!landers From: landers@zeus.mgmt.purdue.edu (Christopher Landers) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: Re: Reversing the backslash ( \ to / ) Message-ID: <1991Apr11.012821.3643@zeus.mgmt.purdue.edu> Date: 11 Apr 91 01:28:21 GMT References: <1786@TALOS.UUCP> Organization: Krannert Graduate School of Management, Purdue University Lines: 25 In article <1786@TALOS.UUCP> jerry@TALOS.UUCP (Jerry Gitomer) writes: >undrground!seanp@amix.commodore.com (Sean Petty) writes: >| All day at work I find myself typing things in at work using the >| "real" backslash ( /etc/passwd, /usr/spool, etc.)... Then I come >| home and have to type in filenames seperated by the out-of-the-way >| psuedo-slash (\)... In point of typographical puctational fact: / is a slash A computer mfg. at somepoint invented : \ a backwards slash or backslash There is nothing pseudo about it, it's a real symbol! Neither has intellectual or practical superiority as a directory seperator (except that the slash is in a constant place on the keyboard and various keyboard and computer mfgrs. keep moving the backslash). It's all a matter of which you first started learning to use. I can assure you that people who have used PC's for years and have only recently started using UNIX find the slash just as uncomfortable to use. And no one likes to switch back and forth. Scan your favorite FTP site for SETCHAR, to make your PC use the slash. -- <================================><===============================> || Christopher Landers || PURDUE UNIVERSITY - KRAN 708 || || Krannert Computing Center || West Lafayette, IN 47907 || <=================== landers@zeus.mgmt.purdue.edu ================>