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From: svirsky@ttidcb.UUCP (William Svirsky)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: Changing the MSDOS option character
Message-ID: <458@ttidcb.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 24-Sep-85 17:29:08 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep 24 17:29:08 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 27-Sep-85 06:33:46 EDT
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Reply-To: svirsky@ttidcb.UUCP (William Svirsky)
Organization: Transaction Technology, Inc. (CitiCorp), Santa Monica
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Summary: 

>Alternatively, try opening "c:/usr/text/things.txt".  MSDOS itself understands
>'/' as a directory seperator just as well as '\\'.  Too bad microsoft opted to
>use '/' as the option introducer character for command line parsing.  On the
>other hand, Thank goodness microsoft left the back door open and allows me to
>change the option character to '-'.  At least in MSDOS 2.XX.

How do you change the option character to '-'?  If you can do this is it also
possible to change the '\\' directory separator to '/'?  Thanks.

Bill Svirsky