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Tue 21st Aug 00:02 2007: Why DOS uses "\" instead of "/"

I didn't know this: Why DOS uses \ instead of /

Whilst *nix uses "myprog -x /path" to give switch "x" to tell "myprog" to run on file "/path", DOS uses "myprog /x \path"

It seems that DOSv1 had already used "/switch" for switches, so "/path" couldn't be used as a path; "\path" was the closest they could come up with. So they used "-switch" for switches

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