Maurice Kinal wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:

 MK> Hey Roy!

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

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

 MK> So where did it come from?

Beats me.

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

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

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

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

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

Lucky you.  They used a line in,  I think,  config.sys dealing with
"SWTCHCHR" or something like that to use the '-'.  I don't know
where this is documented offhand.

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