Hey Roy!

Sep 17 12:06 04, Roy J. Tellason wrote to Maurice Kinal:

 RJT> I do,  and that's not where that came from.

So where did it come from?  i don't recall the VMS switches as it was quite
some time ago and by the time I first saw and played with DOS I was already
used to Solaris and DOS looked and behaved nothing like that, to say the
least.  VMS was my closest experience to DOS.  I forget which version was
installed on ye ol' 386.  I certainly don't miss that at all.

 RJT> And also,  it's 
 RJT> possible for a dos program to use either,  depending on how things 
 RJT> are set up.

I don't recall but do remember using the slash here and there.  I think
fdisk had a few undocumented ones.

 RJT> I had occasion to work with the "Wang PC" back about 
 RJT> 1985 or so,  where the - was used instead of a / all the time.  
 RJT> Weird machine,  that,  you had a  key _and_ an
 key 
 RJT> on the keyboard,  which did different things.

I heard tales of those.  Never had the "pleasure".

Life is good,
Maurice

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