frank@sagan.UUCP (Frank Whaley) (09/26/85)
Hacker types may like to alter the switch character used by MS-D*S in
utilities like DIR, COPY, etc. Changing the switch character from the
default '/' (to maybe '-') then allows '/' to be used as the directory
separator character. Feeding the following file to DEBUG as standard
input creates SWITCH.COM, a program which will examine and/or change
the current switch character. Note that this program uses an "internal"
MS-D*S function, and thus may change in the future (it works under 2.0,
2.1, 3.0, and 3.1). "SWITCH" with no arguments will tell you what the
current switch char is, and "SWITCH c" will set the switch char to 'c'.
Cut the following to a file called "switch", then "debug <switch".
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e 100 F6 06 80 00 FF 74 09 8A 16 82 00 B8 01 37 CD 21
e 110 B8 00 37 CD 21 88 16 30 01 BA 22 01 B4 09 CD 21
e 120 CD 20 53 77 69 74 63 68 20 63 68 61 72 20 3D 20
e 130 00 0D 0A 24
n switch.com
r cx
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w
q
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