4 Mar
2005
4 Mar
'05
12:54 p.m.
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.
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