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From: klotz@ihuxo.UUCP (Dave Klotzbach)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: Re: Changing the dumb '\' to '/'...
Message-ID: <484@ihuxo.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 11-Jun-85 10:53:30 EDT
Article-I.D.: ihuxo.484
Posted: Tue Jun 11 10:53:30 1985
Date-Received: Wed, 12-Jun-85 07:26:22 EDT
References: <229@timeinc.UUCP>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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> I'll assue that somebody out there has already modified the code
> on the PC to allw e to use '/'s  instead of the dumb backslash that
> IBM (Microsoft?) imposed on us...
> 
> Could somebody send me the patch?
> Thanks
> 
> -- 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
> Ross M. Greenberg  @ Time Inc, New York 
>               --------->{ihnp4 | vax135}!timeinc!greenber<---------
> 
> I highly doubt that Time Inc. they would make me their spokesperson.
> ------
> "There's something wrong in the world. There's always been. Something no one
> has ever named or explained" --- Francisco d'Anconia

*** REPLACE THIS LINE WITH YOUR MESSAGE ***
From the program level, inside assembler code etc., you can always substitute
'/' for '\' in the pathname.

If your version of PC/MS-dos is 2.1 or later, you can do this by setting your
'switchar' to any thing other than '/'. This is done by adding the following
command to your config.sys file:

switchar = - or whatever character you prefer.

WARNING: this also changes the default value of COMSPEC from 
[drive]:\command.com
to
[drive]:/command.com
This has been known to cause problems with some of the older public domain 
programs that did not know that '/' and '\' were interchangable from the 
program level.