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A-Shell Development History

HOST.LIT 2.0(104) is now smarter about sorting out possible confusion between switches and UNIX filespecs, both of which can contain slashes. This allows unquoted commands, such as:

HOST /s/abcd

to continue to be treated as filespecs, as they were before the switches /S and /O were added in 2.0(103).

Note that the preferred way to prevent UNIX filespecs or commands from being confused with switches is to enclose them in quotes. For example:

HOST /s "/s/abcd"

In the above command line, the /s following HOST will be treated as a switch, while the "/s/abcd" will be treated as a command to execute.