Re: LuaCurl on Windows

[David Given <dg@...>]

gary ng wrote:
[...]
> That is a problem of the cmd shell where "/" is used
> as "-" in unix, for backward compatability of DOS.

Early DOSs had a system call to change the switch character. If you 
changed it to something else, then the shell and kernel *would* happily 
cope with /.

However, most third-party applications ignored the switch character 
setting, and it eventually went away completely.

Ah, here we go: 
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/msdos-programmer-faq/part4/section-20.html

This has been an off-topic public service announcement.


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David Given
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