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From: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi LASK)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: switchar anyone?
Message-ID: <1990Sep8.052543.23321@uwasa.fi>
Date: 8 Sep 90 05:25:43 GMT
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In article <3388@ecs.soton.ac.uk> mrd@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Mark Dobie) writes:
>OK, so I discovered switchar and I have set it to '-' to make my PC
>look more like UNIX. This is PC-DOS 3.3.
>I have found a few problems and have a few questions.

There is an alternative switchar utility in the /pc/ts/tsutld17.arc
collection, which you might try out.  Available by anonymous ftp
from chyde.uwasa.fi, Vaasa, Finland.  But as many posters have
pointed out, switchar facilities are not unproblematic. 

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