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From:	yngvar DOT folling AT login DOT eunet DOT no (Yngvar Folling)
Newsgroups:	comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: fopen problem.
Date:	24 Aug 1996 08:31:55 GMT
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In article <321B925B DOT 2178 AT idir DOT net>, Jason von Nieda <ageless AT idir DOT net> 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.

The undocumented switch character function stopped working in DOS 4 or 5
or so (don't remember exactly).  In later versions you can still
retrieve the switch character, but you can't change it, so the returned
character is fixed at /.

It was an undocumented function.  Undocumented functions can change.

Yngvar

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