1. Re: DOS/Win and Linux path separator
At home I run Microsoft DOS 6.20 on one machine and Microsoft Windows 95
(OSR2) on my second machine. I'll try out using '/' when I get home. At
work I'm on Microsoft NT version 4.0 Service Pack 5. In a NT DOS box this
works:
type c:\autoexec.bat
but this:
type c:/autoexec.bat
does not. I get the following error message:
The syntax of the command is incorrect.
It's all coming back now. '/' is used for switches on commands. You have
jogged my memory and I seem to recall that DOS could be "tweaked" (maybe via
something obscure in CONFIG.SYS) to use a different character for switches
or was it path separators? I can't recall.
Regards,
Andy Cranston.
-----Original Message-----
From: mic _ [mailto:stabmaster_ at HOTMAIL.COM]
Sent: 18 September 2000 11:58
To: EUPHORIA at LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU
Subject: Re: DOS/Win and Linux path separator
>The problem was that DOS/Win uses '\' to separate components of a
>directory path and Linux (well UNIX in general) uses '/'.
What version of Windows are you running ? Under Win98, using '/' instead of
'\' works just fine. The same thing goes for DOS (well, for DOS boxes
anyway, I haven't tried plain DOS).
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