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The README for 2.0 contains an interesting apology to OEMs: > The user manual contains some significant errors. Most of these are due to last minute changes t
by 6502nerdface 8y ago
The README for 2.0 contains an interesting apology to OEMs:
> The user manual contains some significant errors. Most of these are
due to last minute changes to achieve a greater degree of compatibility
with IBM's implementation of MS-DOS (PC DOS). This includes the use
of "\" instead of "/" as the path separator, and "/" instead of "-"
as the switch character. For transporting of batch files across
machines, Microsoft encourages the use of "\" and "/" respectively
in the U.S. market. (See DOSPATCH.TXT for how you can overide this.
The user guide explains how the end-user can override this in CONFIG.SYS).
Both the printer echo keys and insert mode keys have now been made to
toggle. The default prompt (this may also be changed by the user
with the PROMPT command) has been changed from "A:" to "A>".
We apologize for any inconveniences these changes may have caused
your technical publications staff.
So MS-DOS almost had Unix-style file separators and argument switches!
- userbinator 8y agoThere's even an (undocumented?) int 21h function to get the switch character, if I remember correctly.