On 2010-03-03, mk <[email protected]> wrote:
>> That has always puzzled me to. ETX and EOT were well established, why
>> no use one of them? I'd love to know what they were thinking.
>
> Probably nothing: what many people do with confronted with a problem.
>
> It reminds me of why Windows uses backslashes for path separation
> instead of slashes: what I've *heard*, and do not know if it's true,
> it's because Gates fancied using / for options switch instead of -,
> and to hell with established practice.
Using / for the option switch _was_ the established practice (if you
came from a DEC background the way that CP/M and DOS did).
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