Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!uupsi!pbs.org!TALOS!jerry From: jerry@TALOS.UUCP (Jerry Gitomer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: Re: Reversing the backslash ( \ to / ) Message-ID: <1866@TALOS.UUCP> Date: 15 Apr 91 13:48:39 GMT References: <1786@TALOS.UUCP> <1991Apr11.012821.3643@zeus.mgmt.purdue.edu> <1991Apr11.203022.5407@ux1.cts.eiu.edu> Organization: NPRI, Alexandria VA Lines: 30 bucacs@ux1.cts.eiu.edu (Chicago State) writes: |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 Unfortunately switchchar is not found in all versions of PS/MS DOS, but specifying the translation in the PROMPT *always* works. Jerry -- Jerry Gitomer at National Political Resources Inc, Alexandria, VA USA I am apolitical, have no resources, and speak only for myself. Ma Bell (703)683-9090 (UUCP: (until 4/15) ...uupsi!pbs!npri6!jerry