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From: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc
Subject: Re: How to delete files within C programs
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Date: 15 May 1996 14:09:43 +0100
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J Wunsch (j@ida.interface-business.de) wrote:
: 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. :)

Pre version 4.  I know 3.2 did it correctly and I'm not sure about 3.3.

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


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Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....