Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!dgp.toronto.edu!juancho
From: juancho@dgp.toronto.edu (John Buchanan)
Subject: Changing  to / in TOS
Message-ID: <1988Jan29.130047.18554@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>
Keywords: BRAIN DAMAGED OS.  MS-DOS Atari-TOS
Organization: University of Toronto, CSRI
Date: Fri, 29-Jan-88 13:00:45 EST

	In MS-DOS there is a location which contains the \ character
so that if you change the contents to / then you have a decent directory
delimeter.  I would like to do this on My 1040.  Is this possible? 

****Get out your fire extingushers.******

	My guess is that while they were introducing hard coded limits
into the OS they managed to see that the user had some alternatives in
MS-DOS and then they eliminated them.

	My-My It is funny to see a terminal melt while I flame overworked
software engineers.  


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