[Tutor] EXE Problem

[Alan Gauld]

On 19/06/13 17:41, Jim Mooney wrote:

> you should use forward slashes. I have no idea why Bill Gates thought
> backslashes were kewl

Because MS DOS was copying CP/M which didn't have directory paths
(it was used with 180K floppy disks that stored everything at the top
level) but did have command options that were indicated by a
forward slash

DIR /S

was a sorted directory listing etc.

So MS DOS inherited / as an options marker which precluded
it's later use as a path separator...


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