Re: MS-DOS 5.0

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From: Bob Alexander
Date: Thu, 23 May 1991 14:44

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I would like to switch to DR-DOS 5.0 or MS-DOS 5.0 so that I can get rid
of the partitioning on my 40M disk.  But I am a Unix junkie, and I'd
like to know if these new DOSs support changing the switchar to -, so
that I can use forward slashes on my directory paths.

I know that the switchar was undocumented in DOS 3.3, so there's no
guarantee it would be implemented in the future.  Has anyone tried this?

  Bob Alexander                                      boba@hpwala.wal.hp.com
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From: boba@hpwarau.hp.com (Bob Alexander)
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Subject: Re: MS-DOS 5.0
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Date: 23 May 91 14:44:42 GMT
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