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Article #30250Changing to / in TOS
From: John Buchanan
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1988 18:00
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1988 18:00
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In MS-DOS there is a location which contains the \ character so that if you change the contents to / then you have a decent directory delimeter. I would like to do this on My 1040. Is this possible? ****Get out your fire extingushers.****** My guess is that while they were introducing hard coded limits into the OS they managed to see that the user had some alternatives in MS-DOS and then they eliminated them. My-My It is funny to see a terminal melt while I flame overworked software engineers. -- ===================================================================== | Typical conversation on comp.[atari|amiga|mac].* | ===================================================================== My watch is better than yours. It has multitasking, windows and plays Old macdonald has a farm. I will not listen to reason, of
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!dgp.toronto.edu!juancho From: juancho@dgp.toronto.edu (John Buchanan) Subject: Changing to / in TOS Message-ID: <1988Jan29.130047.18554@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> Keywords: BRAIN DAMAGED OS. MS-DOS Atari-TOS Organization: University of Toronto, CSRI Date: Fri, 29-Jan-88 13:00:45 EST