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From: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: DOS gcc (dj1bin) problems
Message-ID: <3282@sixhub.UUCP>
Date: 23 Feb 91 04:35:01 GMT
References: <1991Feb21.195421.15820@cs.UAlberta.CA> <veit.667235355@du9ds3>
Reply-To: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: *IX Public Access UNIX, Schenectady NY
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In article <veit.667235355@du9ds3> veit@du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de (Holger Veit) writes:

| it is apparently a hidden feature of the MSDOS Kernel (INT21) to accept
| Unix style path names. It is just the F* COMMAND.COM that prevents e.g.
| using RENAME as a MOVE, and other nice features).

  Nope, the programmer's ref for v2.0 said either could be used, and
that command.com by default would use / as a switch and \ as a path, but
would use / for the path delimiter if any other character was chosen. I
think that's still documented, and it's certainly still true.
-- 
bill davidsen - davidsen@sixhub.uucp (uunet!crdgw1!sixhub!davidsen)
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