On 2016-12-08, Random832 <random...@fastmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 7, 2016, at 03:50, Peter Otten wrote:
>> Is there an equivalent to
>>
>> # touch -- -r
>>
>> on Windows?
>
> Doesn't need one - options conventionally start with /, and filenames
> can't contain /.
But _paths_ can, and Windows command-line apps and shells choke on
paths when written with "/" separators because way-back when the
MS-DOS "designers" decided to use "/" as the default option character.
So, to avoid _that_ problem, Windows command line apps and the cmd.exe
shell only allow "\" as a path separator.
Back in the day, you could change the DOS option character to "-", and
then type paths they way God intended: with "/" as the separator.
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