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From: kiravuo@kampi.hut.fi (Timo Kiravuo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: pathnames
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Date: 10 Feb 89 10:25:29 GMT
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In article <8769@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> sagen@nucthy.PHYSICS.ORST.EDU (Milt Sagen) writes:
>Making the backslash character the directory separator was a stupid idea.  

It was a F***ing stupid idea. Microsoft is not very competent
even at their best, but this was one of their worst ideas. And
IBM has topped it. On the new 102 key Scandinavian keyboard the
backslash is generated by pressing right-Alt and the key right to
the 0 (+ in Scandinavia, - in the USA). Now how does the IBM
think that we type backslash, when _both_ keys needed to generate
it are on the right side of the keyboard. Absolutely idiotic. If
they have to redesign the keyboard, why coudn't they at least
have somebody to try to type on it. I mean, they have been making
typewriters for such a long time, that they must have heard about
touch-typing. 

Timo Kiravuo    90-451 4328
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