How To Properly...
Tell the difference between forward slashes and backslashes
I am bringing this up because confusion over the difference between a forward slash and a back slash is still a little out of hand–I saw a commercial for AARP the other day where the guy says go to the website “dot com backslash” whatever. I say!! If you were to type a backslash after that dot com it would never work. Now I want to do my part to see that this confusion is properly resolved…
When you see this: / on your keyboard, it is a ‘forward-slash.’ It is also sometimes referred to as simply a ’slash.’ When you see this: \ on your keyboard you have found the ‘backslash.’
“WHAT YOU SAY!” There is a difference between slashes and backslashes. Their primary purpose in today’s world of computing is in supplying file names, or URL’s (webpage addresses) that point to files on the web. They are used as a folder name separator, to separate folder names when supplying paths to files. I don’t want to try to explain a path, but anyway!
When typing a URL OR if you’re typing filenames for use on a Linux system, you always will use forward-slashes… and only when supplying filenames for use on a Windows (DOS-based or Windows-based) system will you use backslashes.
Ummm… any questions…
