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Re: Why Windows Uses Backslashes and Everything Else Uses Forward Slashes

From Rich <rich@example.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.misc
Subject Re: Why Windows Uses Backslashes and Everything Else Uses Forward Slashes
Date 2014-11-02 23:26 +0000
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RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> wrote:
> Now if I could get a keyboard where the fat key on the right side
> were the forward rather than backward-slash, that would be
> appreciated.

If you are running X windows, just use xmodmap to remap the "fat" key
to return whatever you like.

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Why Windows Uses Backslashes and Everything Else Uses Forward Slashes Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2014-11-01 03:29 +0000
  Re: Why Windows Uses Backslashes and Everything Else Uses Forward Slashes Bob Eager <news0002@eager.cx> - 2014-11-01 11:14 +0000
    Re: Why Windows Uses Backslashes and Everything Else Uses Forward Slashes RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-11-02 23:05 +0000
      Re: Why Windows Uses Backslashes and Everything Else Uses Forward Slashes Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2014-11-02 23:26 +0000
        Re: Why Windows Uses Backslashes and Everything Else Uses Forward Slashes Bob Eager <news0002@eager.cx> - 2014-11-03 00:04 +0000

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