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From: mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us (Marc Unangst)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Switchar setting in MS-DOS
Message-ID: <460.24844889@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us>
Date: 31 May 89 20:02:27 GMT
References: <340@scr1.UUCP>
Reply-To: mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us
Organization: A neat desk is a sign of a crazy person.
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In article <340@scr1.UUCP>, pechter@scr1.UUCP (Bill Pechter) writes:
 >I'm going through the MS-DOS Encyclopedia by Ray Duncan -- but I can't
 >find any reference to the system call to change the switch character...
 >
 >Anyone have the code and registers needed to write a small assembler
 >program to change the switchar from "/" to "-".

/* For Turbo C v1.0+ -- This will *not* work under MSC!!! */
#include <dos.h>        /* For setswitchar() and getswitchar() */
#include <process.h>    /* For exit() */
#include <stdio.h>      /* For printf() */

void main(int, char **);

main(int argc, char **argv)
{
        char schar;
        if(argc != 2) {
                printf("switch: usage: switch switch-char\n");
                exit(1);
        }
        schar = (char *) argv[1];
        setswitchar(schar);
        printf("switch: switch character set to %c\n", getswitchar());
        exit(0);
}

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