backslash

(character)

"\" ASCII code 92. Common names: escape (from C/Unix); reverse slash; slosh; backslant; backwhack. Rare: bash; ITU-T: reverse slant; reversed virgule; INTERCAL: backslat.

Backslash is used to separate components in MS-DOS pathnames, and to introduce special character sequence in C and Unix strings, e.g. "\n" for newline.

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backslash

The symbol (\) used as a separator between folder and file names in DOS and Windows. For example, the path to the Windows version of this encyclopedia is c:\"program files"\CDEweb\CDEweb.exe, which points to the CDEweb.exe file in the CDEweb folder within the Program Files folder on the C: drive.

An Unfortunate, Confusing Symbol
While the backslash (\) is used in Windows addresses, the forward slash (/) is used in Internet addresses, which are Unix based. In addition, the backslash key is in a non-standard keyboard location.

Windows followed DOS, which was modeled after CP/M, and CP/M used the forward slash for command line parameters without regard to Unix path compatibility (Unix was big iron at the time, and CP/M was for personal computers). Thus we are stuck with two different symbols to separate file and folder names.

Double Backslashes (\\)
Two backslashes are used as a prefix to a server name (hostname). For example, \\a5\c\expenses is the path to the EXPENSES folder on the C: drive on server A5. See UNC, \\, path and forward slash.

Platform     Path to Ovens Folder

 Windows:     \products\kitchen\ovens

 macOS,
 Unix/Linux:  /products/kitchen/ovens


              Path to Ovens Page

 Internet:    greatproducts.com/kitchen/ovens

Three Symbols Separate Names

The Unix-based Mac uses the forward slash, while Windows uses the backslash. Starting with Windows Vista, the Explorer path uses right arrows; however, backslashes must still be used at the command line (see cmd abc's).

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CUTTING EDGE

There is also a conservative backslash in Congress, with its members presenting bills to amend t Marco Civil to allow government access to personal data without a court order, and to create tools for politicians to erase from the Internet material that are offensive to them.

Brazilian foreign policy towards internet governance

(89.) Michael Waibel et al., The Backlash Against Investment Arbitration: Perceptions and Reality, in THE BACKSLASH AGAINST INVESTMENT ARBITRATION; PERCEPTIONS AND REALITY xxxvi (2010) ("Commentators increasingly see signs of such a backlash against the foreign investment regime.").

Supernational law

The backslash is used to introduce sub-specifications.

Modeling polyfunctional word formation patterns. A Construction Morphology account of adjectival derivation in the history of German

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(55) In this example, we have used a backslash to indicate a tag.

TOWARD A NEW LANGUAGE OF LEGAL DRAFTING

Drawing on the work of Palumbo-Liu (1999), Morita-Mullaney and Greene (2015) discuss why they insert a backslash ("/") in Asian/American in lieu of a hyphen to situate the dynamic and hybrid identities for those with an Asian heritage, including those who self-identify as Asian nationals, Asian Americans, or any variant mix of identity claims that can be made dependent upon factors such as, but not limited to, environmental context, psychological development, and socio-historical awareness.

"Balancing Two Worlds" Supporting Transracially Adopted Asian/American Students on the College Campus

They were not, however, thinking about the dissociative potential of the backslash.

Dissociation and visual arguments: creating customers for Levy's real Jewish rye

After a year holed up inside the El Rico Embassy in London, self important whistleblower Dan Hern (Ben Miller) is outraged at being forced to share his tiny box room with the childlike German computer hacker Ludo Backslash (Dustin Demri-Burns).

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ASYLUM (9PM BBC4) AFTER a year holed up inside the El Rico Embassy in London, self-important whistle-blower Dan Hern (Ben Miller) is outraged at being forced to share his tiny box-room with the child-like German computer hacker Ludo Backslash (Dustin Demri-Burns).

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