On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, Jim Leonard wrote:
Tom Jennings wrote:
But, throughout all my DOS years I used - as the
switch character
which told MSDOS to use / as a directory character. In CONFIG.SYS:
SWITCHAR=-
That was barely honored outside of Microsoft-land (and sometimes not even).
I would wager that less than 1% of all DOS command-line programs honor
SWITCHAR.
Yeah, why use OS services? They just get in the way!