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From: sullivan@phyllis.math.binghamton.edu (fred sullivan)
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Subject: Re: Microwaves, _video, & switchar
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Date: 31 Jan 89 21:56:51 GMT
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In article <32972@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Christopher Schanck <schanck@cis.ohio-state.edu> writes:
>Three questions for the folks of netland:
>
>things all seem to work fine no matter what switchar is set to. So could
>somebody post a write up of why you would change it, how it can be a
>problem, and so on. Enquiring minds want to know....
>
Some of us are psychologically incapable of typing backslashes in path
names.  Setting switchar to '-' allows us to use foreslashes.

Use of switchar other than '/' breaks some programs, notably Norton Utilities.

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