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From: Chris Morgan <mihalis@ix.netcom.com>
Subject: Re: System Calls
Date: 1999/01/02
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dennison@telepath.com writes:

> > 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 "|".  :-)

No wait, don't say that, if I even begin to think about unifying
the directory separator and the pipe operator my head hurts.

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