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From: sullivan@marge.math.binghamton.edu (fred sullivan)
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Subject: Re: switchar '\' to '/'
Keywords: how do I use it?
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Date: 2 Nov 88 22:14:27 GMT
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In article <324@zeus.hf.intel.com> martin@zeus.hf.intel.com (Martin Wilde) writes:
>
>I am having problems using the posted version utility "switchar.com".
>
>What I need to do is tell dos to convert the '\' to '/'.  The reason
>for this is that I have lots of source that runs on unix with the
>path names for include files.  I would not like to have to convert
>the forward slash to the dos backslash.  I tried the switchar program
>and it did not make a difference.
>
Perhaps you have a braindead compiler which is checking the
file name before attempting to open it.  With Turbo C, anyway,
#include <sys/stat.h> is fine if the switch character is set to
"-".

Fred Sullivan				SUNY at Binghamton
Dept. Math. Sciences			Binghamton, NY 13903
					sullivan@marge.math.binghamton.edu
First you make a roux!