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Article #2306Changing option character from / to -
From: rwallace
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 1990 20:43
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 1990 20:43
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Does anyone know how to change the MS-DOS option character from / to something else? What I want to do is to change it from / to -, so you can type DIR -W instead of DIR /W. This will free the / character for use as a directory name separator so you can type DIR DIRNAME/FILENAME instead of DIR DIRNAME\FILENAME (the MS-DOS routines will accept / as well as \ but COMMAND.COM won't). The Turbo C++ manual says it's an INT 21h call, but doesn't say which one. I can't find it documented anywhere. Thanks in advance. -- "To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem" Russell Wallace, Trinity College, Dublin rwallace@vax1.tcd.ie
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!know!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!julius.cs.uiuc.edu!apple!olivea!mintaka!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!mcsun!ukc!tcdcs!swift.cs.tcd.ie!vax1.tcd.ie!rwallace From: rwallace@vax1.tcd.ie Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer Subject: Changing option character from / to - Message-ID: <6867.26f929ec@vax1.tcd.ie> Date: 20 Sep 90 20:43:24 GMT Organization: Computer Laboratory, Trinity College Dublin Lines: 14