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Subject:Re: slashes, UNIX, and Windows From:Matt Ion <soundy -at- NEXTLEVEL -dot- COM> Date:Fri, 13 Jun 1997 08:03:11 -0800
On Fri, 13 Jun 1997 05:10:49 -0400 (EDT), sfarmh1 -at- scfn -dot- thpl -dot- lib -dot- fl -dot- us
wrote:
>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.
Only problem is, the pipe has another function; namely, piping data
bidirectionally (as opposed to standard one-way redirection using '>'
and '<') between two applications. In DOS (and Windows, by extension),
you can pipe the output of a command to an included utility called
"more", which has the simple function of pausing the display after each
screen page and placing the prompt '-more-' at the bottom. For
example: "type config.sys|more"
To replace slash/backslash with a pipe is NOT a good solution... :-)
Your friend and mine,
Matt
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