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Re: How to use '/' instead of '\'?

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From: Richard M. Hartman
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1993 19:12
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This is old, half-remembered information.

There is (was) a undocumented config.sys option:

	SWITCHCHAR=-

That set the utility flag character to be '-' instead of
'/', which freed up '/' to be interpreted as a directory
separator.  Some programs, however, do not use the switchchar
option, and demand '/' -- this option was never fully
supported (it was an undocumented feature).  I do not know
if this option still exists.  I do not think it is a good
idea to use this option if it did because of the potential
compatibility problems.  I think that one of the most annoying
things that microsoft ever did was use '\' as the directory
separator character!  I hope this helps.

		-Richard Hartman
		hartman@ulogic.COM

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From: hartman@ulogic.UUCP (Richard M. Hartman)
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Subject: Re: How to use '/' instead of '\'?
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