Re: typesetters' ethics--> [ ] lore

On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 13:07:54 -0400, i18n@... <i18n@...> wrote:

> Nicholas Bodley wrote:
>
>> Those who know the internal workings of MSDOS, truly well, point out
>> that an ordinary [/] can function internally as a directory delimiter,
>> but that some crucial function that's frequently used (I forget which)
>> rejects a [/], thus, in practice, it requires a [\] to be used
>> routinely.

[Barry]

> I never heard that...

Well, it's pretty obscure info.; have seen it only a very few times, but
it's memorable. I spent a few minutes trying to find where I recently read
it again, but had no luck.

Yes, CP/M had directories, and iirc, they were nestable as well. Gary
Kildall, its author, was a computer person.


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