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From: teexnma@ioe.lon.ac.uk (Nino Margetic)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: MS-DOS 5.0 (switchar)
Message-ID: <1991May30.183814.29165@ioe.lon.ac.uk>
Date: 30 May 91 18:38:14 GMT
References: <2117@hpwala.wal.hp.com> <1991May28.155024.896@csc.canterbury.ac.nz>
Organization: Dept. of Medical Physics - University College London
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In <1991May28.155024.896@csc.canterbury.ac.nz> phys169@csc.canterbury.ac.nz writes:

>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).

**** Well, under MS-DOS v.5 it is certainly possible to use both: "-" for
options, *and* "/" for directory separators. I am running Anarkey v.3
with DOS5 and it works OK.

--Nino


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