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Originally Posted by j.p.s
Well, to give the spawn of Satan its due, microsoft copied / for options and device: notation from DEC, but not the [] and . delimiters for directory paths. In no way did they have any keyboard control when they bought a CPM clone to sell to IBM as DOS.
The \ had been used by UNIX shells and C as an escape character before Gates and Allen pirated time on the computers of others to write a BASIC interpreter, much less buy the rights to a CPM clone.
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My error. I had temporarily forgotten about the escape character usage. Thanks for the catch. Unix has such a nice command line it is unfortunate that Microsoft messed with it some 10 years later.
Dale