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From: andy@mks.com (Andy Toy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: / as a dir delimiter
Message-ID: <1990Mar16.141118.26192@mks.com>
Date: 16 Mar 90 14:11:18 GMT
References: <16559@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> <249@gritty.UUCP> <14409@cbnewsc.ATT.COM> <1990Mar15.192216.4153@seri.gov>
Reply-To: andy@mks.com (Andy Toy)
Organization: Mortice Kern Systems, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
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In article <1990Mar15.192216.4153@seri.gov> marshall@wind55.seri.gov (Marshall L. Buhl) writes:
>Various long-time *nix users asked if there was a way to modify MS DOS so
>that one could use "/" instead of "\" to delimit directories.

>I can't answer that, but as a long time PC user whose started dabbling in
>*nix, how can I modify *nix to use the "\" delimiter instead of "/"?  You 
>know, the way God intended it to be.

Write a new shell for UNIX that looks like command.com :-)
It should be easier than writing a UNIX-style shell for DOS.
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