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The joy of double negatives



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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
From: [email protected] (Michael Krell)
Subject: Re: Was there a  "   \   "  before DOS ?
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Organization: University of Virginia
References: <[email protected]>
Date: Sun, 3 Nov 1996 22:09:42 GMT

In article <[email protected]>, Ken West <[email protected]> wrote:

>I'm always amused, and disappointed, at the number of people who don't
>know what to call  "/"  vs "\".   You know:  " the backslash is the one
>under the question-mark",   or  "it goes from northeast to southwest".  I
>also hear people use "backslash" when receiting URLs.

Brief aside: I was listening to Rush Limbaugh the other day, and he mentioned 
a URL by saying "h t t p colon reverse-backslash reverse-backslash..."

Heh, heh.  At least he knew it wasn't a backslash.

    Mike


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