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- From: c89ponga@odalix.ida.liu.se (kand. Pontus Gagge)
- Subject: Re: \ and /
- Message-ID: <1992Nov10.040903.25474@ida.liu.se>
- Sender: news@ida.liu.se
- Organization: CIS Dept, Univ of Linkoping, Sweden
- References: <BxGtBJ.6qM@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> <9NOV199218433306@venus.tamu.edu>
- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 04:09:03 GMT
- Lines: 28
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- ebb7683@venus.tamu.edu (BLACKMAN, EDWARD B) writes:
-
- >In article <BxGtBJ.6qM@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>, mkohlhaa@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (mike) writes...
- >>Hi. I just recently got a 486 (after having and Amiga for a long time) and
- >>am very annoyed at having to use "\" where I had always used "/". Could
- >>someone recommend a utility or other solution that will equate
- >>my handy / key to a \, but only will in DOS? I thought
- >>about reassigning the key, but I was afraid that the output would
- >>still then be a "\" when I was connected to a Unix system.
-
- >Check out 4DOS (current release: 4.01D). It's a command.com replacement, and
- >will allow use of / in place of \, and has MANY other advantages over plain old
- >command.com.
-
- >Ed
-
- ...but unfortunately this will work only for the shell commands. There is
- no way to make applications accept unix-slashes. On the other hand, the
- slashes *are* used more frequently out in the shell.
-
- (Just felt like picking nits.)
-
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