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Subject: DOS 2.0 Switchar
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Date: Fri, 9-Dec-83 18:21:42 EST
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Posted: Fri Dec  9 18:21:42 1983
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From:  Mike Ciaraldi  <ciaraldi@Rochester.ARPA>

The last Digest had a message asking about how to make the option
character in DOS 2.0 be a "-" instead of a "/", and make the path-name
separator a "/" instead of a "\", to match Unix conventions.

I have been using ZDOS 2.0 on a Zenith Z-100 (pre-release), and there
is an easy way to do this. It turns out this works fine on PC-DOS 2.0
also, although it does not seem to be documented anywhere.

In your CONFIG.SYS file, include the line:

      switchar=-

This changes the switch character to a minus sign. You can make it
anything you want. As long as you make it anything but a slash, the
path-name separator will automatically change from reverse-slash to
forward-slash.

Mike Ciaraldi
ciaraldi@rochester