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On 2013.05.05 13:55, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> (you might need to use /S on Windows instead, I'm not sure.)
That is only a convention among Microsoft's CLI utilities. Very few others follow it (even for programs written specifically for Windows),
and it is certainly not a necessity on Windows.
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