Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ncar!noao!stsci!roberts From: roberts@stsci.EDU (Jim Roberts) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer Subject: Re: Building a better DOS revisisted (getting close to UNIX) Message-ID: <2815@nemesis.stsci.edu> Date: 24 Jun 91 04:05:25 GMT References: <0094A761.C2F6D640@MAPLE.CIRCA.UFL.EDU> <13597@pt.cs.cmu.edu> Reply-To: roberts@stsci.EDU (Jim Roberts) Organization: Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD 21218 Lines: 15 In article <13597@pt.cs.cmu.edu> ralf+@cs.cmu.edu (Ralf Brown) writes: >No it won't, because DOS has always accepted either forward or backslashes >in pathnames. It converts them to backslashes internally, but accepts >either, just like it accepts filenames in either upper or lowercase. Not DOS 4.0x, which ruinously accepts only backslashes. I'm about to install 5.0. I suspect there is no improvement, but there hasn't been a posting in it yet here. It's a good idea to check out general assertions. -- Jim Roberts roberts@stsci.edu scivax::roberts