Date:	Fri, 23 Aug 1996 17:17:07 -0300
Message-Id:	<1.5.4.16.19960823142847.37c70c7c@dmeasc.rc.ipt.br>
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To:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
From:	Cesar Scarpini Rabak <csrabak AT dce03 DOT ipt DOT br>
Subject:	Re: fopen problem.

At 09:28 23/08/96 +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
>On Wed, 21 Aug 1996, Jason von Nieda wrote:
>
>> If it bothers you so very much, get a DOS programming reference
>> or Ralf Browns Int list and use the undoc'ed DOS int to change it
>> to a forward slash.
>
>I think that undocumented interrupt doesn't work anymore, beginning with
>DOS 5.0.  However, DOS itself doesn't care at all to get forward slashes; 

It only works for retrieving the 'switch character', but re-assigning to
another doesn't work anymore...

>it's only programs which come with DOS (like COMMAND.COM) that don't treat 
>forward slashes as directory separators.  So if you only use Unix-style 
>pathnames in your programs, you don't have to bother about this issue.
>
>
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