[Xitami] CGI

[Charles Schmidling]

Oh what the heck...

At the risk of exposing my age ...

"/" - this is a backslash.  It deals with the motion one makes with a pen or
pencil as opposed to direction of incline.  For those who remember cards,
"backslash,backslash" defined a command card in IBM Job Control Language
(JCL).

"\" - this is the forward slash.  Again, describing a physical motion.

be gentle,
Charles

Isn't the term "software program" dedundant?


----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian {Hamilton Kelly}" <bhk@dsl.co.uk>
To: <xitami@lists.xitami.org>
Sent: Monday, March 24, 2003 12:23 PM
Subject: Re: [Xitami] CGI


> Are you saying that you know for a fact that Xitami translated forward
> slashes into backslashes under "DOS filesystems" (which presumably
> includes Win9x/ME)?  Because I wonder why it bothers; DOS filesystem
> internals have accepted forward slashes interchangably with backslashes
> since DOS v1.0; it's only in a command-line that one has to use back-
> slashes (because the forward slash has been stolen as the switch[1]
> character to introduce command-line options).  Writing in Turbo-C and
> VC++ under Win95, I have often used forward slashes in a path within an
> fopen() call.