Re: Re: Intranet Server Software + Web Design Software.

["Tim Dawe" <list.mailbox@xxxxxxx>]

> > What was the logic BTW of making DOS using \ and Browsers using
/
>
> Reflects the unix heritage of the first browsers/web servers.

back in the days of MS-DOS 1, there was no such thing as a
sub-directory,
and / was used to denote a command line switch.  When hierarchical
file
systems were eventually introduced to DOS, the / was already in use, so
the
\ was used to separate directories.

Tim

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