Some more notes

[Peter Hansen]

Jorgen Grahn wrote:
> On Sat, 23 Oct 2004 10:01:00 -0400, Peter Hansen <peter at engcorp.com> wrote:
>>That's not necessary in almost all cases.  Windows happily(*)
>>accepts forward slashes in all system calls.  The only place
>>it does not is in the *shell* (aka command.com and cmd.exe).
> 
> IIRC, forward slashes have been acceptable since way back in early MS-DOS --
> although someone somewhere on Usenet suggested that Microsoft have never
> commited to keeping it that way.

I know that there was an un(der)documented control somewhere that
allowed one to change even DOS to accept hyphens in place of
forward slashes as the "switch" indicator for command line options,
but this is the first time I've heard it suggested that even
the DOS "APIs" (I use the term loosely... the interrupt routines
barely qualify for that title :-) ) would allow forward slashes
as the Windows APIs (always?) have.

Does anyone have a reference for that?

-Peter