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From: jto@santra.UUCP (Jari Tomminen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Microsoft linker and /
Keywords: link delimiters patch
Message-ID: <10059@santra.UUCP>
Date: 29 Jan 88 21:54:53 GMT
References: <363@vilya.UUCP> <105@ucrmath.UUCP>
Reply-To: jto@santra.UUCP (Jari Tomminen)
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Lines: 21

In article <105@ucrmath.UUCP> baumann@hope.UUCP (Michael Baumann) writes:
>a true pain. Use INT 21 function 37 (set switch char) to reset the switch
>character to '-'. This has the delightful side effect of allowing the use
>of the forward slash '/' as a file seperator.

The only problem is that all application programs don't like these
cute switch characters and delightful side effects.  For example
WordPerfect 4.2 will barf if you try to run it with any option switches
and you have the switch character set to anything but "/".

Personally I prefer "-".  It's more like *UNIX*...  If Microsoft had
to make DOS so much UNIX lookalike then why didn't they make it
properly instead of leaving it halfway?

Best regards,
Jari.
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