[Novalug] Accessing BIOS

[Michael Henry]

On 01/15/2010 04:39 PM, James Ewing Cottrell 3rd wrote:
>
> Bryan J. Smith wrote:
>> MS-DOS 2.0 added directories, but
>> using a backslash (\) because the slash (/) was already taken by
>> command options, piping and redirection, etc...
>
> Question: how was / used for piping? I know they used /out=file for
> redirection.

I had to read it twice myself, because "/" was not used for
piping.  But I think it was meant as a list of things MS added,
with a parenthetical explaining why the backslash.  I interpret
it as though it had the below extra parentheses:

>> MS-DOS 2.0 added directories (but
>> using a backslash (\) because the slash (/) was already taken by
>> command options), piping and redirection, etc...

Michael Henry