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From: pizolamr@ttown.apci.com (Michael Pizolato)
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Subject: Re: Win 95 stability
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 96 17:31:14 GMT
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Tony Scandora wrote:
:Chris Traxler writes:
:>>DOS is cool! 
:>
:>- NOT!
:>What is "cool" about DOS? It starts with the annoying backslash \ in
:>file paths that is hard to type on non-US keyboards (on a German
:>keyboard, e.g., you need to hold the right Alt key and press some
:key...
:
:Surely the above comment isn't from a UNIX guy.  How many C programs
:can be written without a backslash?
[smip]

Four.

There's a paper written by leading researchers who have mathematically 
proven this, but I seem to have misplaced it...

-m