Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!maytag!mks.com!andy
From: andy@mks.com (Andy Toy)
Subject: Re: Where is the long awaited MS DOS 5.0 ?
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 91 07:17:40 GMT
Message-ID: <1991Jan14.071740.5103@mks.com>
Organization: Mortice Kern Systems, Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA
References: <13523@milton.u.washington.edu> <10110@lanl.gov> <9354@ccicpg.UUCP>

In article <9354@ccicpg.UUCP> mahrk@ccicpg.UUCP (MHR {who?}) writes:
>When the notion of hard disks, complete with
>paths and subdirectories suddenly became relevant, around xxDOS
>version 1.2 (which was actually later released as 2.0 and fixed to work
>in 2.1), the '/' as switch character had become so firmly entrenched
>that they had to use something else, so they picked the '\'.

However, if one has `switchar=-' in their config.sys file then one can
use `-' as the switch character and `/' as the directory separator
(this works on my Toshiba T1000 with DOS 2.11).
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