Sybren Stuvel wrote: > John Salerno enlightened us with: > > But of course I still agree with you that in either case it's not a > > judgment you can fairly make 30 years after the fact. > > I don't see Microsoft changing it the next 30 years either... Apple > moved from \r to \n as EOL character. I'm sure the folks at mickeysoft > are smart enough to change from \ to /.
They dis-allow '/' in filenames, and many Microsoft products now respect '/' as an alternate to '\'. >From a WinXP command prompt: C:\> C:\>cd /windows/system32 C:\WINDOWS\system32> For a "Windows vs. Linux" thread, this one has been remarkably rant-free. -- --Bryan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list