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From: cramer@kontron.UUCP (Clayton Cramer)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: Re: Changing the dumb '\' to '/'...
Message-ID: <241@kontron.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 14-Jun-85 12:24:16 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jun 14 12:24:16 1985
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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...
> > 
> 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.

Doesn't work under PC-DOS 3.0 on an AT.  In fact, I get an error message when
it tries to process the config.sys command.