Date: Sun, 25 Aug 1996 09:20:39 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Roman Meshorer <romanm AT cpm DOT telrad DOT co DOT il>
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: fopen problem.
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On Sun, 25 Aug 1996, Roman Meshorer wrote:

> On Fri, 23 Aug 1996, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> > However, DOS itself doesn't care at all to get forward slashes; 
> > it's only programs which come with DOS (like COMMAND.COM) that don't treat 
> > forward slashes as directory separators.
> 
> What's about 'cd' and other DOS commands (internal) dealing with full
> pathes ?

These commands are not internal to DOS, they are internal to COMMAND.COM, 
an as such, they suffer from all the idiosyncrasies of COMMAND.COM; in 
particular, they think `/' is a switch character.