steed@techunix.BITNET (Ze'ev "Steed" Shtadler) (12/17/88)
In November there was a nice patch for COMMAND.COM on the net. It
allowes COMMAND.COM to accept both "-" and "/" as switch caracter in
call time. This is useful when you use programs that call
"COMMAND.COM /C foo" even when the switchar is "-".
This reminded be of another problem I had when I started using "-" as
switchar. You cannot execute a program that has a "-" in its name.
COMMAND.COM breaks the program name as it sees the "-" and treats the
rest of the line as arguments. I had to rename these programs to
foo_bar instead of foo-bar.
Does anyone have a patch for that? I want to have something like the
UNIX shells: If I put a "-" in the program name, it should be there, I
don't want COMMAND.COM to put an extra blank before it.
I use MS-DOS 3.30, but every help will be appriciated.
Ze'ev.
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