"Dennis Lee Bieber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> On Thu, 12 May 2005 15:34:39 -0000, Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> declaimed the following in comp.lang.python:
>
>
>> I think the use of forward slashes for command line switches
>> was adopted by CP/M from DEC's OSes (e.g. RSX-11). CP/M didn't
>> have directories in the beginning, so nobody worried about what
>> to use for path separators (DEC used colons, IIRC). DOS was a
>
> I can't speak for the various PDP-11 family, but VMS syntax was:
>
> hardware:[toplevel.nextlevel.ad.infinitum]filename.ext;version
>
And in a clustered VMS environment, there's also
nodename::hardware:[toplevel.nextlevel.ad.infinitum]filename.ext;version
(somewhat analogous to a UNC path)
Roger
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