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From: sagen@nucthy.physics.orst.edu (Milt Sagen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: pathnames
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Date: 10 Feb 89 04:16:28 GMT
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In article <10353@ut-emx.UUCP> nather@ut-emx.UUCP (Ed Nather) writes:
>A recent conversation about Borland's new debugger, which also demands
>backslashes, got the helpful reply
>
>"Well, OS2 doesn't allow it, so get used to backslashes."
>

I've got to say this, it is nothing more than my opinion, so take it or leave
it.

Making the backslash character the directory separator was a stupid idea.  
Consider the fact that the backslash character is not located at any one place
between keyboards.  It is such a pain to go to a different machine with a 
different keyboard with a different location for the backslash yet running the
same operating system.


Milt Sagen                    Internet: sagen@nucthy.physics.orst.edu
Department of Physics
Oregon State University
Corvallis, OR  97331          Tele: (503) 754-4631