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Laura K
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Mar 6, 2005, 5:31 PM

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I just had an argument with a tech who was trying to get me to bring up a website.

Which is which? ///////////////////////////////////////
L

"... it seems that if you're passionate about something, it freaks people out. You're considered bizarre or eccentric. To me, it just means you know who you are." - director Tim Burton


Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut that held its ground.


Scott Brooks
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Mar 6, 2005, 5:40 PM

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forward would get my vote Mad


Jeff N
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Mar 6, 2005, 5:46 PM

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Teche
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Mar 6, 2005, 6:00 PM

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forward


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Robert
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Mar 6, 2005, 6:04 PM

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Re: [Laura K] OT: Backslash or Forward slash... [In reply to] Can't Post
/ is a back slash.

We write left to right, and top to bottom The motion to make the / is right to left... hence backslash



(This post was edited by Robert on Mar 6, 2005, 6:06 PM)


Five-seveN
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Mar 6, 2005, 6:09 PM

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backslash n. the standard character that is variously called "reverse solidus" or "backslash" (\).
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forward slash / Used in closing tags before the tag name to indicate it is a closing tag, and in single tags after the tag name as single tags must still be closed. Also used in URL addresses to separate directories and files.

(This post was edited by Five-seveN on Mar 6, 2005, 7:00 PM)


Laura K
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Mar 6, 2005, 6:11 PM

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That is what I have always known it to be, said it to be, and have never been questioned ever.
"http://" (backslash, backslash)
Dunno, I learn something new every day.
L

"... it seems that if you're passionate about something, it freaks people out. You're considered bizarre or eccentric. To me, it just means you know who you are." - director Tim Burton


Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut that held its ground.


Robert
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Mar 6, 2005, 6:21 PM

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That's wildus cyotious....roadrunnerus fastuss if I ever heard it. Wink

I've always had it explained the way I said above.
I could be wrong.....is that from a dictionary Five-seveN?

I still remember when the internet came out to the masses and a WHOLE address was given with the HTTP tags and all. It was always called backslash. And I heard it desdribed as my above post.

So VU's site would be:

HTTP colon backslash backslash doubleyou doubleyou doubleyou period videouniversity period com

regards,
Robert


Five-seveN
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Mar 6, 2005, 6:50 PM

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Re: [Robert] OT: Backslash or Forward slash... [In reply to] Can't Post
Most all the definitions on the web (using Google> define:backslash), reference the character "\" as a backslash.

Also known as ASCII code #92, reverse slash; slosh; backslant; backwhack

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=backslash

(This post was edited by Five-seveN on Mar 6, 2005, 7:10 PM)


rinda
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Mar 6, 2005, 7:05 PM

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As far as I know, / is a "slash" or "forwardslash" and \ is a "backslash."


virtualCHARLEY
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Mar 6, 2005, 7:43 PM

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Re: [Laura K] OT: Backslash or Forward slash... [In reply to] Can't Post
Laura, you tell the direction of the "slash" by looking at the top. If the top is to the right of center ( / ), its "leaning forward" and is a forward slash.


Storm Crow
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Mar 6, 2005, 7:57 PM

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It's a forward slash
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Robert
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Mar 6, 2005, 8:56 PM

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I like virtual Charlie's explanation..... and yours just ices the cake.


I bet a lot of people don't know the difference.... LOL
D'oh!


regards,
Robert


AlanB
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Mar 6, 2005, 9:00 PM

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/ forward slash

\ backslash

An easy way to remember is if the top is forward (to the right) of the bottom it is a forward slash. If the top is behind the bottom it is a backslash. This all assumes you read left to right of course Wink

Alan


gl
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Mar 6, 2005, 9:43 PM

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/ is a backslash. In the unix world, knowing the difference is essential.

gl


Laura K
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Mar 7, 2005, 3:14 AM

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I still remember when the internet came out to the masses and a WHOLE address was given with the HTTP tags and all. It was always called backslash. And I heard it desdribed as my above post.

Amazing, I can't believe I have learned it backwards also.
I'm the same with you, that is the way I learned it as well.

Oh, well, learn something new everyday.

Thanks for the claification folks.
L

"... it seems that if you're passionate about something, it freaks people out. You're considered bizarre or eccentric. To me, it just means you know who you are." - director Tim Burton


Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut that held its ground.


Ranko
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Mar 7, 2005, 4:10 AM

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Perhaps unix is different with Windows/DOS...this is something I extracted from the net...
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The backslash character is \; a simple slash or forward slash is /. In DOS and Windows systems, the backslash represents the root directory and is also used to separate directory names and filenames in a pathname.
then again, I could be the one who have got it all mixed up. =)

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/ is a backslash. In the unix world, knowing the difference is essential.

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gl
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Mar 7, 2005, 7:03 AM

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Clearly many of us have been working together in our incorrect state :P

Oh well. Ignorance, as a group, is bliss.

gl


videobear
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Mar 7, 2005, 7:42 AM

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Regardless of the terminology from handwriting, computer terminology is / = forward slash, and \=backslash. Comes from the DOS days when a "\" pointed "backward" to the next higher directory in a tree structure.




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TimK
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Mar 7, 2005, 7:58 AM

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I still remember when the internet came out to the masses and a WHOLE address was given with the HTTP tags and all. It was always called backslash. And I heard it desdribed as my above post.
That's weird. I remember those days, and to me it was always called forward slash.


mjeppsen
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Mar 7, 2005, 10:19 AM

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/ is a backslash. In the unix world, knowing the difference is essential.

I've only been around on the 'net since 1995, so my experience is rather time-limited. But I've always heard "/" referred to as a "forward-slash". This thread would be the first case that I've heard otherwise, online or offline (and I am a *nix admin BTW).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backslash says that "\" is a "backslash".

TCL scripting has roots back to 1988, and the TCL man pages make references to "\" as a backslash. Used as an escape character (exactly why Bob invented it).

http://www.bobbemer.com/BACSLASH.HTM offers some history on the slash-family, and if I'm reading it correctly, "/" = "slash" or "virgule" or "slant", and "\" = "reverse slant" or "backslash".
Here is a newsblurb that refers to Bob Bemer as the inventor of the backslash, alas it doesn't give us an example of the character in question. But it makes the history lesson in the previous link a little more credible I think.
In an "article" on Slashdot about Mr. Bemer's death, I found this interesting post: http://developers.slashdot.org/...read&cid=9525331
hehe

I believe that "///////////////////////////////////////" are all "forward slashes", or simply, "slashes".


Matt Jeppsen
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gl
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Mar 7, 2005, 11:33 AM

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Yes, I have been misinformed for a long time...amazing I have survived this long Tongue

gl


peter lee
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Mar 7, 2005, 11:57 AM

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not just Unix - almost all programming and scripting languages use the backslash \ as the default escape character.


mjeppsen
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Mar 7, 2005, 12:33 PM

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not just Unix - almost all programming and scripting languages use the backslash \ as the default escape character.

I think that GL was also making reference to *nix filesystems using forward-slashes instead of DOS/Windows backslashes.
i.e. /usr/bin/ vs. C:\Program Files\


Matt Jeppsen
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L_awful_Man
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Mar 7, 2005, 12:39 PM

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Matt_Jepp,


A Unix admin? Geez! As the prohibition-days joke goes, - (one pal smelling of moonshine to the other): if I respected ya before... now I stand in awe before ye Cool

So is your avatar up-to-date? Tongue You're not, like, a 100-yo bearded guy, we should be on the lookout @ the NAB's Party, eh?!

Seems like 'backslash' is more prone to bringing in further confusion since it's spelled as one word. Plus anything that has to do with programming and gets in the limelight
w/the non-programmers is bound to have... a backlash... (no pun intended).

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