Re:Going back to DOS style... (Score 1)

The "/" was used in MS-DOS command lines to identify a "switch" (UNIX calls 'em "options" and uses a dash character). MS had a bunch of DEC & DG type coders there back when DOS was developed, and that's how they did it at DEC. Using the "\" as a pathname separator was a huge mistake because UNIX used "/" and all it did was to confuse a whole generation of college kids who grew up on UNIX.