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From: hp@vmars.tuwien.ac.at (Peter Holzer)
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Subject: Re: switchar anyone?
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Date: 30 Aug 90 14:39:38 GMT
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mrd@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Mark Dobie) writes:

>Is switchar still supported in the latest MSDOS/PCDOS?

I have heard they have abandoned it in DOS 4.0 (I don't have 4.0, so I
cannot check this). It does not work in OS/2's DOS-box (But who uses OS/2
anyway :-)

>And, of course, many programs don't bother checking it. Even PCDOS
>utilities like xcopy and tree. If only people like Microsoft and
>Borland provided a getopt function for option argument processing,
>then it could do the checking.

Borland does! On the distribution disks of Turbo-C 2.0 is a file 
getopt.c, which does use the switchar (It was there all the time since 1.0, 
if I remember correctly). 

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