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From: acli@byron.net4.io.org (Ambrose Li)
Subject: Re: Language "ranking" based on posts to users groups
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Date: Wed, 27 Dec 1995 19:39:02 GMT
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In article <4bec1s$fr1@gabi.gabi-soft.fr>, J. Kanze <kanze@gabi-soft.fr> wrote:
>At the systems call level (open, etc.), DOS has always accepted both.
>But many of the earlier DOS programs would never pass a argument
>beginning with a / down to the system, they would parse it for program
>options.

Not quite right. Even new DOS programs (and Windows programs)
parse the filenames and never pass the / down to the system.
And not just on the command line: they do that even to the
filenames the user input from within the program.

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