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From: phys169@csc.canterbury.ac.nz
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: MS-DOS 5.0 (switchar)
Message-ID: <1991May28.155024.896@csc.canterbury.ac.nz>
Date: 28 May 91 03:50:24 GMT
References: <2117@hpwala.wal.hp.com>
Organization: University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
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In article <2117@hpwala.wal.hp.com>, boba@hpwarau.hp.com (Bob Alexander) writes:
> I would like to switch to DR-DOS 5.0 or MS-DOS 5.0 so that I can get rid
> of the partitioning on my 40M disk.  But I am a Unix junkie, and I'd
> like to know if these new DOSs support changing the switchar to -, so
> that I can use forward slashes on my directory paths.
> 
The Switchar DOS call certainly works under DRDOS 5. Many commands (e.g.
Assign, Dir) take notice of the change, some (e.g. SID) don't. You can't use 
the attrib command properly after changing the switchar to "-" (it expects a 
"-" for some parameters anyway).

Hope this helps,
Mark Aitchison, Physics, University of Canterbury, New Zealand.