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From: Greg.Smith@p11.f477.n104.z1.METRONET.ORG (Greg Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Ms-dos 5.0 And The Set Switchar Function 3701h
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Date: 31 Mar 91 12:03:00 GMT
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In a message to All <30 Mar 91 12:46> Scott Telford wrote:

 ST> From: scott@cs.hw.ac.uk (Scott Telford)
 ST> Date: 27 Mar 91 12:35:41 GMT
 ST> Organization: Dept of Computer Science, Heriot-Watt University, UK.
 ST> Message-ID: <2633@odin.cs.hw.ac.uk>
 ST> Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc

 >>I've heard rumor that MS-DOS 5.0 might not support the INT 21H function
 >>3701H set switchar.  Maybe if enough people voice their opinions to

Is that the function to set the / to a - for command line options?  Anyways, 
not many programs use it, and many programs support -'s as the switch anyways as it's preferred by most people.  (I support either char.)

 ST> compatibility features out, even if it is undocumented. At this rate,
 ST> they'll be taking the pipes and redirection out of COMMAND.COM next...

And taking 99% of their profits with them!  I just wish we could trick them 
into documenting the undocumented features so that they would have to keep 
them!

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