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From: kaleb@mars.jpl.nasa.gov (Kaleb Keithley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: / as a dir delimiter
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Date: 11 Mar 90 22:39:29 GMT
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In article <249@gritty.UUCP> zraisin@gritty.UUCP (Emile Deen) writes:
> Does anyone know if you can change the default directory delimiter from
> a back slash to a forward slash?  I am a unix user and find MS-DOS's
> use of a backslash rather annoying, as well as disasterous in c programs.

So use forward slashes in your C programs.  RTFM, the *only* thing that
requires back slashes is COMMAND.COM.  Everything else can use either forward
or backward slashes as directory delimiters; unless is is some brain-dead
application that checks explicitly for backslashes and disallows anything
else.  

BTW, I use both *nix and DOS, and since I came from DOS to *nix, I could
say something like "forward slashes are rather annoying", but I don't! 

kaleb@mars.jpl.nasa.gov            Jet Propeller Labs
Kaleb Keithley

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