/ as a dir delimiter

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From: Scott Larsen
Date: Wed, 07 Mar 1990 08:37

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Does anyone know if you can change the default directory delimiter from
a back slash to a forward slash?  I am a unix user and find MS-DOS's
use of a backslash rather annoying, as well as disasterous in c programs.

Any ideas?

-Scott Larsen
larsen@cs.orst.edu                       UUCP: hplabs!hp-pcd!orstcs!larsen
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From: larsen@mist.cs.orst.edu (Scott Larsen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: / as a dir delimiter
Summary: can I switch from backslash to forward slash?
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Date: 7 Mar 90 08:37:26 GMT
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