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From: allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: pathnames
Message-ID: <13386@ncoast.ORG>
Date: 16 Feb 89 00:04:29 GMT
References: <2569@pegasus.ATT.COM> <3847@cbnews.ATT.COM> <662@mks.UUCP> <10353@ut-emx.UUCP>
Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery)
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As quoted from <10353@ut-emx.UUCP> by nather@ut-emx.UUCP (Ed Nather):
+---------------
| "Well, OS2 doesn't allow it, so get used to backslashes."
+---------------

Who uses OS/2?

I dunno about anyone else, but I'm considering porting a simple database
manager or clone thereof (say, a clone of Informix 3.30 [pre-SQL]) to Minix
and suggesting *that* as an alternative to OS/2.  It doesn't even need a 4MB
286 box to run!

++Brandon
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