From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!hp-pcd!tw
Newsgroups: net.micro
Title: Re: MIcrosoft Unix Incompatibilities - (nf)
Article-I.D.: hp-pcd.1013
Posted: Sat May  7 00:26:14 1983
Received: Tue May 17 20:09:39 1983

#R:presby:-21000:hp-pcd:6200018:000:768
hp-pcd!tw    May  6 11:16:00 1983

Actually, you can use '/' in pathnames on DOS 2.0 instead of '\' if
you want, either works.  The only problem is that '/' is the switch
character used to indicate options to most programs.  What you need
to do is put the following line in your CONFIG.SYS file:

switchar = -

which will make the switch character a '-', same as unix, and will
also eliminate any problems with '/'.  I.e. instead of saying:

format /v    you now say    format -v

This makes things much less confusing for us Unix users.

Tw

NOTE:  if you put the above switchar in your config.sys, be warned that it
takes effect immediately, so if you plan to do something like
	shell = xyz /f
with some flag later in the same config.sys, it won't work.  You have to make
that	shell = xyz -f
instead.