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From: nather@utastro.UUCP (Ed Nather)
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Subject: pcdos is not unix
Message-ID: <146@utastro.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 12-Apr-84 10:41:42 EST
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Posted: Thu Apr 12 10:41:42 1984
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[]  -- someday ...

	I don't know if this only applies to the IBM PC or not, but if you put

				SWITCHAR=-

	in your CONFIG.SYS file you can use "/" instead of "\" for pathnames
	and "-" instead of "/" for options.

	Has anyone done any hacking to COMMAND.COM to rename some of the
	internal commands?  I tried but so far have had only limited success.
	Using DEBUG on COMMAND.COM is not a pleasant chore.

						Danny Sykora
						AT&T Bell Labs (Holmdel)
						(201)949-7358
						houxf!micom

Unfortunately this change has an ugly side-effect: once made, PC-DOS can no
longer find *any* file with a "-" in it -- e.g. PC-TALK, PC-WRITE, PC-FILE.
Apparently PC-DOS does not know about white space.  Since PC-TALK (which
is a very good program) creates files called PC-TALK.KEY etc. a complete
re-write would be required to change *all* such names.  Blaaaargh.

Anybody have a fix for this?

-- 

                                       Ed Nather
                                       ihnp4!{ut-sally,kpno}!utastro!nather
                                       Astronomy Dept., U. of Texas, Austin