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From: dennison@telepath.com
Subject: Re: System Calls
Date: 1998/12/30
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In article <wccg19y8zti.fsf@world.std.com>,
  Robert A Duff <bobduff@world.std.com> wrote:

> part of the problem is pretty trivial -- I mean, "list of directory
> names" is an abstraction that need not care about "/" vs "\".  Not all

Perhaps we should compromise and use "|".  :-)

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