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From: doerschu@rex.cs.tulane.edu (David Doerschuk)
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Subject: Re: / as a dir delimiter
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Date: 26 Mar 90 01:05:13 GMT
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In article <1822@crash.cts.com> elund@pro-graphics.cts.com (Eric Lund) writes:
>In-Reply-To: message from larsen@mist.cs.orst.edu
>> All in all, I was rather disappointed by this attitude.  Just complaining,
>> and not testing out possibilities ("DO NOT DO IT!") is a rather backwards
>> way of going about scientific research, don't you think?  No
>
>After reviewing my message, I have concluded I was not as hopelessly backwards
>as you think.  I objected to the tinkering of command.com, because it is an

1.  4DOS will change the switchar, but its overkill unless you want it for
    some of the (many) other benefits it provides.

2.  ANARKEY is a very slick command line editor that augments, rather than
    replaces, command.com.  It will change the switch char, and also provide
    a very fine history mechanism, aliasing, and metakey-style filename
    completion.

3.  The PICNIX set of utilities has a switch char program named switchar
    that does just that and no more.  Its a great set of utilities;
    essentially designed for folks that spend a lot of time on *NIX systems
    and find it difficult to change mindsets back and forth from *NIX to DOS.
    (like me!)

Patching command.com is not particularly dangerous, but it may not work
afterwards!  :-)  Lighten up, guys.