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From: j@ida.interface-business.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc
Subject: Re: How to delete files within C programs
Date: 11 May 1996 23:41:58 GMT
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Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> wrote:

> ] I know. :)  In DR-DOS, you could even change the ``switch character''
> ] to `-', and then command.com was able to use slashes as pathname
> ] separators as well.
> 
> DOS 2.11 allowed "switchchar=-" in the config.sys.

I know, but i've never seen an M$ command processor that groked
slashes as pathname separators.  Maybe i didn't try to hard finding
one anyway, and my DOS experiences start to become rusty these
days. :)

-- 
J"org Wunsch					       Unix support engineer
joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de       http://www.interface-business.de/~j