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From: Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us>
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Subject: Re: The problem With Windows
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2024 08:44:37 -0400
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candycanearter07 wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:

> rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote at 20:27 this Sunday (GMT):
>> On Sun, 24 Mar 2024 15:10:07 -0000 (UTC), candycanearter07 wrote:
>>
>>> Yeah, Windows does not have the most understandable FHS.
>>
>> I would like to hang the backslash guy but the blame is spread thin.
>>
>> https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/archive/blogs/larryosterman/why-is-the-dos-path-character
>
> Yeah! Who thought that was ever a good idea? It just adds confusion
> between Windows and non-Windows.

The link above explains it.  Pretty reasonable.  But then I grew up on
DEC Systems, where the "/" flagged an option.

As was noted, the system accepts "/" as a path separator.

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