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		twoodfin on Oct 1, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Pub400.com – Your public IBM I 7.5 server Minor correction: OpenVMS uses . not / as a path separator. / is for command switches.

skissane on Oct 1, 2022 [–]

I wasn’t saying OpenVMS uses slash. I was saying it puts the directory name before the file name instead of after it, as S/38 (effectively) does. (I also mentioned MVS dataset names, which use dot instead of slash as well.)

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