Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 Unisoft-Cosmos; site sagan.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!hplabs!well!micropro!sagan!frank From: frank@sagan.UUCP (Frank Whaley) Newsgroups: net.micro.pc Subject: MS-D*S switch character Message-ID: <146@sagan.UUCP> Date: Wed, 25-Sep-85 19:56:57 EDT Article-I.D.: sagan.146 Posted: Wed Sep 25 19:56:57 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 28-Sep-85 07:15:00 EDT Distribution: net Organization: MicroPro Int'l Corp., San Rafael, CA Lines: 26 Hacker types may like to alter the switch character used by MS-D*S in utilities like DIR, COPY, etc. Changing the switch character from the default '/' (to maybe '-') then allows '/' to be used as the directory separator character. Feeding the following file to DEBUG as standard input creates SWITCH.COM, a program which will examine and/or change the current switch character. Note that this program uses an "internal" MS-D*S function, and thus may change in the future (it works under 2.0, 2.1, 3.0, and 3.1). "SWITCH" with no arguments will tell you what the current switch char is, and "SWITCH c" will set the switch char to 'c'. Cut the following to a file called "switch", then "debug