i18n@... wrote back in September:

> . . . ("/" is not the parameter
> switch character in Unix - not sure about CPM or others) . . .

I don't know if this was ever answered. Slash delimits parameter
switches in VMS, which incidentally had a hideous syntax for subdirectories.

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