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From: dennis@rlgvax.UUCP (Dennis.Bednar)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: Anyone know how to discover the DOS switch character?
Message-ID: <708@rlgvax.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 13-Nov-87 14:40:54 EST
Article-I.D.: rlgvax.708
Posted: Fri Nov 13 14:40:54 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 15-Nov-87 09:45:13 EST
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Organization: Computer Consoles Inc, Reston VA
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Keywords: DOS, IBMPC, PC6300, switch, assembler
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In article <2257@ihuxy.ATT.COM>, vg55611@ihuxy.ATT.COM (gopal) writes:
> But, why read the switchar at all ?   Just replace all occurrences of '/'
> with '\' in the arg string (or the string of concern) and then the user of
> your program can use either.  This is what I do with programs I write.

Am I missing something?  If I ran the command
	comx /s b:\dir\file.c
then your program (comx) internally does this:
	comx \s b:\dir\file.c
before it does any real processing (based on what you have said).
Now, how can you tell if \s is a switch or a file?  It seems
that you cannot, that is, it would be ambiguous.

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