The problem is that there's a limit to what one can ask to a FreeDOS tool:
if it breaks MS-DOS compatibility. If DATE/T is taken as an option by
MS-DOS COMMAND.COM, so should FreeCOM. You don't know how many batch
programs could stop working with that change.

Aitor


2012/4/11 Zbigniew <zbigniew2...@gmail.com>

> 2012/4/11, Tom Ehlert <t...@drivesnapshot.de>:
>
> >> 2. Could it be made to use slash as separator in pathnames, just like
> >> 4DOS allows both slash and backslash? Every Linux/BSD user will
> >> appreciate that.
> > whats supposed to happen on
> >
> >    C:>DATE/T
> > /T is probably an option
> >
> >    DATE\T
> > probably some program in subdirectory DATE shall be executed
>
> My personal vote would be for bringing a little more order, I mean: to
> suppress recognizing such input as option, if slash is directly after
> some string of characters - in such case path recognition should be
> assumed.
> --
> regards,
> Zbigniew
>
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