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From: yogi@humus.Huji.AC.IL (Yossi Gil)
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Subject: Re: pathnames
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Date: 12 Feb 89 13:18:24 GMT
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According to the last rumor I heard, DOS (>= 3.0) system calls,
or int 21 functions in the PC slang, treat equally the '/'
and the '\'. The one to blame for the backslash backward
thinking is command.com. Anyone knows more about it?