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From: bucacs@ux1.cts.eiu.edu (Chicago State)
Subject: Re: Reversing the backslash ( \ to / )
Message-ID: <1991Apr11.203022.5407@ux1.cts.eiu.edu>
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1991 20:30:22 GMT
References: <D95JZ1w164w@undrground.UUCP> <1786@TALOS.UUCP> <1991Apr11.012821.3643@zeus.mgmt.purdue.edu>
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In article <1991Apr11.012821.3643@zeus.mgmt.purdue.edu> landers@zeus.mgmt.purdue.edu (Christopher Landers) writes:
>In article <1786@TALOS.UUCP> jerry@TALOS.UUCP (Jerry Gitomer) writes:
>>undrground!seanp@amix.commodore.com (Sean Petty) writes:
>>|      All day at work I find myself typing things in at work using the
>>|      "real" backslash ( /etc/passwd, /usr/spool, etc.)... Then I come
>>|      home and have to type in filenames seperated by the out-of-the-way
>>|      psuedo-slash (\)...
>
>Scan your favorite FTP site for SETCHAR, to make your PC use the slash.

	There is an undocumented DOS function to change the backslash directory
seperator to the slash:
	switchchar -
	According to "UNIX System V Release 4: An Introduction", DOS was
initially patterned after UNIX and remembers the original slash delimiter.

Carlos "What's a file structure?" Butler