andy@mks.com (Andy Toy) (03/21/90)
In article <1990Mar19.083315.5841@calvin.spp.cornell.edu> richard@calvin.spp.cornell.edu (Richard Brittain) writes: >I wish JP software had not decided to perpetuate the mystique of the switch >character by sliding this feature in "under the table". They could have kept >this local to 4dos, and remained completely free of the msdos switchar debate. The switch character debate is still roaring, but a possible solution is for everyone to write programmes that use "-" as the switch character. This will allow these programmes to accept "/" or "\" as the path delimiter since DOS inherently accepts both. Hence commands can be entered like: prog -opt1 -opt2 /this/file -or- prog -opt1 -opt2 \that\file Additionally, if you have a version of DOS that allows "switchar=-" in the config.sys or has a command.com which uses the switch character setting then you can even use: /path/prog -opt1 /yet/another/file -or- \path\prog -opt1 \yet\another\file Anyway, that's my $0.02 worth. -- Andy Toy, Mortice Kern Systems Inc., Internet: andy@mks.com 35 King Street North, Waterloo, UUCP: uunet!watmath!mks!andy Ontario, CANADA N2J 2W9 Phone: 519-884-2251 FAX: 519-884-8861