> the ability to change the switch operator from / to - like XENIX/UNIX, and the ability to change the path separator from \ to / I first learned about this fr

> the ability to change the switch operator from / to - like XENIX/UNIX, and the ability to change the path separator from \ to / I first learned about this from an article in the March/April 1984 issue of the newsletter published by Carousel Microtools (a company that implemented Kernighan/Plauger Software Tools from the book of the same name). "Fortunately there is a way to suppress this confusion altogether. PC-DOS and MS-DOS version 2.x share a feature that is little known and which IBM never mentions."