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

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On Sun, 02 Nov 2014 23:26:52 +0000, Rich wrote:

> 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.

It's not that hard on most systems (haven't tried Windows). I remember 
writing a program to map the Num Lock key to something else (so it could 
act as a VT 'Gold' key for Kermit). And that was on DOS.

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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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