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To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
Cc: DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>, djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Style of slashes and `system' 
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 01 Apr 1996 21:34:47 PST."
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Date: Tue, 2 Apr 1996 11:19:47 PST
From: "Marty Leisner" <leisner AT sdsp DOT mc DOT xerox DOT com>


dos 3.x had a switchar command (to globally change \ to /).

the dos kernel doesn't really care whether we use \ or /)

Some applications parse the filenames...

All the routines should not do anything with filenames except
pass them to the kernel...

If you have to deal with braindamaged application, you can
deal with them individually...


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marty
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