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From: john@moncol.UUCP (John Ruschmeyer)
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Subject: Re: Changing the dumb '\' to '/'...
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Date: Fri, 14-Jun-85 11:29:49 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jun 14 11:29:49 1985
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]From: lsmith@ut-ngp.UTEXAS
]Organization: UTexas Computation Center, Austin, Texas
]Message-ID: <1823@ut-ngp.UTEXAS>
]
]A lot of programs use '/' to specify flags, where Unix usually uses '-'.
]I assume this is why path names can't have '/'.

Ah, 'tis true. This, however, is where the magic undocumented dos 2.x
SWITCHAR comes in. If you add a line such as

	SWITCHAR=-

to your CONFIG.SYS file, then the '/' becomes a legal path delimeter.

Now, however, you must say

	DIR -W

to get a multi-column directory, for example.


As pointed out, however, this is an undocumented "feature". Take it for
what it's worth.

As a side note, does anyone know what would happen to wildcarding if you
set SWITCHAR to '*' ?


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