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From: davidsen@steinmetz.UUCP (Davidsen)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: Re: Undocumented MS-DOS call for getting the switch char
Message-ID: <353@steinmetz.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 7-Jan-86 12:38:18 EST
Article-I.D.: steinmet.353
Posted: Tue Jan  7 12:38:18 1986
Date-Received: Thu, 9-Jan-86 05:57:49 EST
References: <3340005@csd2.UUCP> <231@utastro.UUCP>
Reply-To: davidsen@kbsvax.UUCP (Davidsen)
Organization: GE CRD, Schenectady, NY
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Summary: 


I believe that call 37H also sets a flag to indicate that the devices are (or
are not) available without \dev\ prepended to the name. Now if they'd only
allow us to list the \dev directory... Note also that the DOS documentation
explicitly states that either "\" or "/" may be used as a path delimiter. The
switch character is *only* important at command line parse time.

These were options in config.sys for DOS2.x, one was called SWITCHAR=x. I have
the other in my copy of the OEM documentation, but it's not at at hand. I
believe there's also a way to reset the character and line delete characters,
since DEC and PC-PRO (under DOS 2) use contl-X rather than ESC.
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