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From: tittle@alexandre-dumas.ics.uci.edu (Cindy Tittle)
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Subject: Re: BEWARE of changing the command line switch (switchar)
Keywords: switchar COMMAND.COM
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Date: 17 Oct 88 17:25:26 GMT
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In article <824@kksys.UUCP> bird@kksys.UUCP (Mike Bird) writes:
 *
 *BEWARE: When you change the command line switch on COMMAND.COM, there are
 *quite a few products that no longer will work.  Let me (try) to explain what
 *I'm talking about:

 I believe the documentation for switchar warns about this possibility.
 Like you said, it has to do with the lack of documentation about
 the switch character -- there are programs which hardwire the '/' character
 in, rather than taking it from the environment set up.

 When I installed it, I found that I had to install pctools first (as a tsr),
 *then* I could switch the character.  Otherwise  I haven't run into any
 problems.  (But then I don't use many different programs.)

 Cheers,
 --Cindy

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