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From: bazavan@hpcilzb.HP.COM (Valentin Bazavan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: PC Tools Deluxe Version 5 is out!
Message-ID: <640005@hpcilzb.HP.COM>
Date: 14 Feb 89 15:20:48 GMT
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Organization: HP Design Tech Center - Santa Clara, CA
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> Give that a try to see if it cures the problem you mentioned.  If it
> does, you can then save yourself some typing by creating a shell alias:

> 	$ alias foo='c:\dos\foo.exe'

> I've seen this cure similar problems with other programs that use
> overlays, so I suspect it will work here too.

Thank you, Gerry! This works, but you need both the quotes and
a double slash: '\\dos\\foo.exe' (at least in my version of the
toolkit, 2.3). Why?

> If I may, I'd like to make a request of you software authors out there
> -- please write your programs so they will handle either type of slash
> in pathnames.  It would make life easier for many people. 

Yes, pleeeeease! Or, at least, use environment variables (like Wordstar 2000), 
or configuration setting options (like Borland's Turbo languages).
 
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Valentin Bazavan
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