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From: rwallace@vax1.tcd.ie
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Changing option character from / to -
Message-ID: <6867.26f929ec@vax1.tcd.ie>
Date: 20 Sep 90 20:43:24 GMT
Organization: Computer Laboratory, Trinity College Dublin
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Does anyone know how to change the MS-DOS option character from / to something
else? What I want to do is to change it from / to -, so you can type DIR -W
instead of DIR /W. This will free the / character for use as a directory name
separator so you can type DIR DIRNAME/FILENAME instead of DIR DIRNAME\FILENAME
(the MS-DOS routines will accept / as well as \ but COMMAND.COM won't).

The Turbo C++ manual says it's an INT 21h call, but doesn't say which one. I
can't find it documented anywhere.

Thanks in advance.
-- 
"To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem"
Russell Wallace, Trinity College, Dublin
rwallace@vax1.tcd.ie