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Glyn Dwr

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14. People were new at slashes

Reply to MgtPA (Reply #9)

Wed Aug 21, 2013, 12:45 PM

Aug 2013

I think that the only people who really knew which was which were people who used DOS or UNIX commands a lot. People still conflate the naming conventions, and I can sort of see the logic in calling either one a "backslash," but, yeah, he's still wrong.

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