On May 27, 2006, at 6:24 PM, Aaron J. Grier wrote:
On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 01:40:39PM -0500, Peter da Silva wrote:"-?" is a MSDOS-ism.
you mean of course "/?" :)
From MS-DOS 2.11 through MS-DOS 5 there was a variable "SWITCHAR". If it was set to "/" (the default) the switch character was "/" and the path element separator was "\". If it was set to "-" then the switch character was "-" and the path element separator was "/".
