Mail Archives: djgpp/1996/08/25/02:32:08
On Sun, 25 Aug 1996, Roman Meshorer wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Aug 1996, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
> > However, DOS itself doesn't care at all to get forward slashes;
> > it's only programs which come with DOS (like COMMAND.COM) that don't treat
> > forward slashes as directory separators.
>
> What's about 'cd' and other DOS commands (internal) dealing with full
> pathes ?
These commands are not internal to DOS, they are internal to COMMAND.COM,
an as such, they suffer from all the idiosyncrasies of COMMAND.COM; in
particular, they think `/' is a switch character.
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