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From: steveha@microsoft.UUCP (Steve Hastings)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: switchar anyone?
Message-ID: <57254@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 7 Sep 90 18:00:35 GMT
References: <3388@ecs.soton.ac.uk> <105625@convex.convex.com> <1990Sep4.165921.6697@mks.com>
Reply-To: steveha@microsoft.UUCP (Steve Hastings)
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In article <1990Sep4.165921.6697@mks.com> andy@mks.com (Andy Toy) writes:
>In article <105625@convex.convex.com> harper@convex.com (David Harper) writes:
>>A far better way is a TSR which [ ... ] would automatically
>>translate '/' to '\' and '-' to '/'
>
>This will work most of the time, but there are some cases where this
>will not work.

The shell in the _Thompson Toolkit_ (formerly known as _PolyShell_) has a
feature which can do the translation on a command-by-command basis.  If you
type

fixbs command arguments

the shell will fix up the command line before passing it to DOS for
execution.  (Naturally I use shell aliases to avoid typing "fixbs" all the
time.)  This does not help *inside* an application, of course, but it
allows you complete control over which applications get the translation and
which don't.
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