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- From: hartman@ulogic.UUCP (Richard M. Hartman)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
- Subject: Re: How to use '/' instead of '\'?
- Message-ID: <827@ulogic.UUCP>
- Date: 8 Jan 93 19:12:29 GMT
- References: <lkojp8INNnfr@boogie.cs.utexas.edu>
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- This is old, half-remembered information.
-
- There is (was) a undocumented config.sys option:
-
- SWITCHCHAR=-
-
- That set the utility flag character to be '-' instead of
- '/', which freed up '/' to be interpreted as a directory
- separator. Some programs, however, do not use the switchchar
- option, and demand '/' -- this option was never fully
- supported (it was an undocumented feature). I do not know
- if this option still exists. I do not think it is a good
- idea to use this option if it did because of the potential
- compatibility problems. I think that one of the most annoying
- things that microsoft ever did was use '\' as the directory
- separator character! I hope this helps.
-
- -Richard Hartman
- hartman@ulogic.COM
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