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Don't forget /?

• Volundr 5y ago
  The only place I've seen this is windows world where /arg and -arg are the same thing. Don't ask me how this came about.
  • weikju 5y ago
    DOS, where /arg was the way
    • samatman 5y ago
      Which it got from CP/M, which borrowed the idiom from VMS.
    • garaetjjte 5y ago
      They originally used - but IBM wanted /
  • glandium 5y ago
    IIRC, it's up to the application whether they handle /arg and -arg forms. They might just as well not support the latter.