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bucacs@ux1.cts.eiu.edu (Chicago State) writes:

|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

	Unfortunately switchchar is not found in all versions of 
	PS/MS DOS, but specifying the translation in the PROMPT
	*always* works.

				Jerry

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