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From: jackm@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Jack Morrison)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: BEWARE of changing the command line switch (switchar)
Keywords: switchar COMMAND.COM
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Date: 20 Oct 88 15:23:00 GMT
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Reply-To: jackm@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Jack Morrison)
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>BEWARE: When you change the command line switch on COMMAND.COM, there are
>quite a few products that no longer will work.

As this point gets mentioned over and over, I'd like to humbly point out
an alternative that seems to work well: modify the command line editor
to translate / to \ and vice-versa (see -x option of UNCLE on simtel20).
-- 
Jack C. Morrison, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
"How am I typing? Call 1-818-354-1431, or mail jackm@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov"