Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ttidcb.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!ttidca!ttidcb!svirsky 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 Article-I.D.: ttidcb.458 Posted: Tue Sep 24 17:29:08 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 27-Sep-85 06:33:46 EDT References: <450@philabs.UUCP> <103700016@ima.UUCP> <1332@teddy.UUCP> Reply-To: svirsky@ttidcb.UUCP (William Svirsky) Organization: Transaction Technology, Inc. (CitiCorp), Santa Monica Lines: 10 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