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- From: jim@n5ial.chi.il.us (Jim Graham)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
- Subject: \ and /
- Distribution: world
- Message-ID: <721591190snx@n5ial.chi.il.us>
- References: <1992Nov10.040903.25474@ida.liu.se>
- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 92 17:59:50 GMT
- Organization: Me? Organized? Hah! :-)
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- In article <1992Nov10.040903.25474@ida.liu.se>
- c89ponga@odalix.ida.liu.se writes:
- >
- > ebb7683@venus.tamu.edu (BLACKMAN, EDWARD B) writes:
-
- >> 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.
-
- > ...but unfortunately this will work only for the shell commands. There is
- > no way to make applications accept unix-slashes.
-
- sure there is. there are at least a dozen programs on simtel (switchar,
- etc.) that do this. granted, microslop took this ability away from you
- after dog 4 or dog 5 (not sure which was first to lose it), but Digital
- Research is smart enough to recognize that several of their customers
- want this ability, and didn't remove it. this, in fact, is why I
- switched (no pun intended) to DR instead of microslop. I've yet to be
- disappointed.
-
- --jim
-
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