Path: utzoo!yunexus!geac!syntron!gerry
From: gerry@syntron.UUCP (G. Roderick Singleton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Change ESC to ^U in COMMAND.COM line editor
Summary: switchar.c from DDJ to the rescue
Message-ID: <326@syntron.UUCP>
Date: 15 May 88 17:23:27 GMT
Article-I.D.: syntron.326
Posted: Sun May 15 13:23:27 1988
References: <2954@crash.cts.com>
Organization: Syntronics Manufacturing Inc., ON, Canada
Lines: 22

In article <2954@crash.cts.com>, cline@pnet01.cts.com (Ben Humphreys) writes:
> 
> Not only that, it seems every time I go back and forth between DOS and UNIX, 
> I keep blowing it on the slash/backslash.  It would be neat if there were
> a constant defined somewhere in COMMAND.COM to define the path seperator 
> (i.e. \).  I'd like to change it to the UNIX /...


Ben, there is a Santa Claus.  Sometime back someone ran into the same problem
and invented switchar.c.  This neat little program does exactly what you want
however, there's a gottcha.  Upto DOS3.2 some of the supplied utilities
insist on having their switch character as "/".  Sooo, you have to remember
to switch back to DOS mode.  Since the sources are still likely available
on your local BBS I won't post them here but if a search of BBS archives and
your friends' also fail drop me email.

ger

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G. Roderick Singleton, gerry@{ suncan | geac | eclectic | syntron }.UUCP
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