Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ut-ngp.UTEXAS Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!genrad!grkermi!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!ut-sally!ut-ngp!lsmith From: lsmith@ut-ngp.UTEXAS Newsgroups: net.micro.pc Subject: Re: Changing the dumb '\' to '/'... Message-ID: <1823@ut-ngp.UTEXAS> Date: Tue, 11-Jun-85 22:02:43 EDT Article-I.D.: ut-ngp.1823 Posted: Tue Jun 11 22:02:43 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 14-Jun-85 00:17:30 EDT References: <229@timeinc.UUCP> <549@hou2b.UUCP> Organization: UTexas Computation Center, Austin, Texas Lines: 4 *** REPLACE THIS LINE WITH YOUR MESSAGE *** A lot of programs use '/' to specify flags, where Unix usually uses '-'. I assume this is why path names can't have '/'.