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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: Tue, 18-Jun-85 15:34:46 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jun 18 15:34:46 1985
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> Also,  some  programs  may  not check to see what the current SWITCH
> character is ( some programmers are really sloppy :-)

True enough. I noticed that the 'tree' utility htat comes with MS-DOS 2.11
for the Tandy 1000 requires '/', no matter what the switchar is set for.


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