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In <2815@nemesis.stsci.edu> roberts@stsci.EDU (Jim Roberts) writes:

>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.

i think ralf means that dos *functions* accept either fore or back slashes.
they do indeed.  for me, dos 4.01 at the command line won't accept '/' as
it thinks that's a switch.  natch.

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