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From:	Tom Wheeley <tomw AT tsys DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>
Newsgroups:	comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: fopen problem.
Date:	Sat, 24 Aug 96 01:38:21 GMT
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On Wednesday, in article <321B925B DOT 2178 AT idir DOT net>
     ageless AT idir DOT net "Jason von Nieda" wrote:

> Dan Pop wrote:
> > >Which again just goes to show just what wonderful morons the Micro$oft
> > >programmers are...  or rather, the people who tell those programmers what
> > >to do.  I sometimes wonder if the term "user satisfaction" is even in
> > >Bill Gates's vocabulary.
> 
> 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.

Kick me if I'm wrong, but I thought that only worked with the internal
commands like CD and DIR that deal with directories.  
I think external programs like xcopy would complain anyway.

I never tried it with either though, and I can't remember where I got this
impression from.

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