Larry Osterman's WebLog : Why is the DOS path character "\"?
http://blogs.msdn.com/larryosterman/archive/2005/06/24/432386.aspx

And how DOS builders added secret support to make it more like unix.

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Why \ was used for paths in DOS.

The reason why DOS (and subsequently Windows) went with the backslash character to convey path information, instead of UNIX's forward-slash.

Why is there a "\" key on the keyboard in the first place? As far as I know, they aren't used in English grammar, and to this day, most common users don't know which is "back" and which is "forward."

Thanks Reddit! If you've ever wondered why all the paths on Windows machines are wrong, why the escape character on Windows is "^" and so on, please read this little piece.

perl -MCPAN -e 'install IO::Socket::INET'

「start」でエクスプローラ表示。xpじゃ出来ないものも多いけどclipとか便利だなぁ。

Windowsのコマンドプロンプトをより便利に使うためのちょっとしたテクニックを10個紹介します。

Windowsの操作の基本はGUIですが、ファイル操作などを手早く行うためにコマンドプロンプトを使うこともあると思います。本稿では、Windowsのコマンドプロンプトをより便利に使うためのちょっとしたテクニックを10個紹介します。

startとclipが特に便利そうだ

That is M$ backwards compatibility for you! LOL.

Funny, and sad... "And that is why, in 2009, when developing in Microsoft .NET 3.5 for ASP.NET MVC 1.0 on a Windows 7 system, you cannot include /com\d(\..*)?, /lpt\d(\..*)?, /con(\..*)?, /aux(\..*)?, /prn(\..*)?, or /nul(\..*)? in any of your routes."

Hotma

changes directory from a large tree, allowing instant jumps ( pretty handy, all shells shoudl have this, especially if you take the time to make a meaningful directory structure : just enough for some things like: program/bc audio/ipt au*/w*edit

Wcd is a program to change directory fast. It saves time typing at the keyboard. One needs to type only a part of a directory name and wcd will jump to it. By default wcd searches for a directory with a name that begins with what has been typed, but the use of wildcards is also fully supported.