Re: Building a better DOS revisisted (getting close to UNIX)

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From: Jim Roberts
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 1991 04:05

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In article <13597@pt.cs.cmu.edu> ralf+@cs.cmu.edu (Ralf Brown) writes:

>No it won't, because DOS has always accepted either forward or backslashes
>in pathnames.  It converts them to backslashes internally, but accepts
>either, just like it accepts filenames in either upper or lowercase.

Not DOS 4.0x, which ruinously accepts only backslashes.  I'm about to
install 5.0.  I suspect there is no improvement, but there hasn't been
a posting in it yet here.  It's a good idea to check out general
assertions.

-- 
Jim Roberts	roberts@stsci.edu	scivax::roberts

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From: roberts@stsci.EDU (Jim Roberts)
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Subject: Re: Building a better DOS revisisted (getting close to UNIX)
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