Message-Id:	<199702151916.UAA07459@magigimmix.xs4all.nl>
From:	"yeep" <yeep AT xs4all DOT nl>
To:	"'OpenDOS newsgroup'" <opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net>
Subject:	Re: [opendos] BAD Filesystems
Date:	Sat, 15 Feb 1997 17:23:43 +0100
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Sender:	owner-opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net

> > \ would be interpreted as a directory path, so if you said:
> > COPY FILE1.txt \
> 
> No, only if the line is _longer_ than the the width of the screen, it'd
> pop the entire line from the parsed point so you don't have a, (lets say)
> critical filename split from right to left.
> 
> > / would be interpreted as a switch character, so if you said:
> > COPY FILE.TXT .. /
> 
> same reason.

Well, a DOS box in Win NT allows you to just keep going.
You can type for as long as you want, it'll just continue on the next line.
Offcourse there is a 256 character limit :-(

	Yeep

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