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From: leisner.wbst139@xerox.com
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Dos slash experience
Message-ID: <26107@adm.brl.mil>
Date: 23 Feb 91 21:57:22 GMT
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I was an extensive user of Ms-Dos and tried to make my Ms-Dos machines look
like Unix machines (as much as possible).

The DOS operating system takes forward or backward slashes as path delimiters.

There's a switchar command to configure command.com (or DOS tools or whoever
looks at this).

Some applications takes only backward slashes, some take either one.

I also ran join on a drive to get /a instead of a: (no vendors seem to be able
to handle this with their install scripts or programs).

marty
(Knowledge is useful in the Information Age)
(I hate slow, non-intuitive non-creative computer systems)
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