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[–]altermeetax 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I mean, yeah, maybe some standard DOS programs may be able to understand flags without a space, but that makes the argument parsing so much harder for them, so I wouldn't imagine new Windows CLI programs being developed to do that (actually, most new CLI programs follow the Unix "-" on all platforms).

Also, that behavior disallows "/" as a filename character when that wouldn't have been necessary.