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Subject:Re: slashes, UNIX, and Windows From:John Glenn <sfarmh1 -at- SCFN -dot- THPL -dot- LIB -dot- FL -dot- US> Date:Fri, 13 Jun 1997 05:10:49 -0400
Maybe take the view of Matt Ion <soundy -at- direct -dot- ca>one step
more and use a pipe (|) to represent a slash (\/) then note
(with example if thought necessary) which way the ''pipe''
should lean.
With memories of CP/M
jg <sfarmh1 -at- scfn -dot- thpl -dot- lib -dot- fl -dot- us> mailto:sfarmh1 -at- scfn -dot- thpl -dot- lib -dot- fl -dot- us
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