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Article #9143Re: Reversing the backslash ( \ to / )
From: Chicago State
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1991 20:30
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1991 20:30
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In article <1991Apr11.012821.3643@zeus.mgmt.purdue.edu> landers@zeus.mgmt.purdue.edu (Christopher Landers) writes: >In article <1786@TALOS.UUCP> jerry@TALOS.UUCP (Jerry Gitomer) writes: >>undrground!seanp@amix.commodore.com (Sean Petty) writes: >>| All day at work I find myself typing things in at work using the >>| "real" backslash ( /etc/passwd, /usr/spool, etc.)... Then I come >>| home and have to type in filenames seperated by the out-of-the-way >>| psuedo-slash (\)... > >Scan your favorite FTP site for SETCHAR, to make your PC use the slash. There is an undocumented DOS function to change the backslash directory seperator to the slash: switchchar - According to "UNIX System V Release 4: An Introduction", DOS was initially patterned after UNIX and remembers the original slash delimiter. Carlos "What's a file structure?" Butler
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!news.cs.indiana.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!ux1.cts.eiu.edu!bucacs From: bucacs@ux1.cts.eiu.edu (Chicago State) Subject: Re: Reversing the backslash ( \ to / ) Message-ID: <1991Apr11.203022.5407@ux1.cts.eiu.edu> Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1991 20:30:22 GMT References: <D95JZ1w164w@undrground.UUCP> <1786@TALOS.UUCP> <1991Apr11.012821.3643@zeus.mgmt.purdue.edu> Organization: Eastern Illinois University