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From: kens@hplsla.HP.COM (Ken Snyder)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Reversing the backslash ( \ to / )
Message-ID: <12990005@hplsla.HP.COM>
Date: 16 Apr 91 23:33:30 GMT
References: <D95O;srge?.4w@undrground.UUCP>
Organization: HP Lake Stevens, WA
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/ @nkkgwy.HP.COM asks:

>       My ded.is... Short of staying at work for the rest of my life,
>       is there a DOS patch, or a TSR, or any type of program or fix which
>       will allow me to seperate filenames with the (/) flash on my MS-DOS
>       PC?

   Mortise Kerns Systems has the answer to this problem and a whole lot
more with their MKS toolkit.  This will not only allow you to change your
backslashes to slashes but provide you with a kshell complete with ls, 
grep, find, cpio, vi and about 80 other unix commands.  As a unix hacker
myself, the MKS toolkit makes my home PC a productive tool instead of the
DOS toy I purchased! :-)  I've even aliased the cd, cp and mkdir commands
to the unix equivalents so wildcard characters work the way they are
supposed to instead of the way DOS translates them.

   And for writing scripts to get the job done, let's see, do I have to
do anything more than echo a message and start a program?  If the answer
is yes, time to use the kshell!

   OK, DOS isn't quite as powerless as I've portrayed but it sure is nice
to have all my unix commands available on the PC.

   If you want to stay with DOS and still change your '\' to '/' you can
try 4DOS which replaces COMMAND.COM.  It has a much more powerful command
set than DOS and the flexibility to change the separator and parameter
chars.  It's also shareware (so you can try it) and cheap (so you can
buy it!)

One unix/dos hacker's opinion,

Ken