The LazyBoy Library Manual - GetSwitchChar

Part of the System group.

%imacro GetSwitchChar 1
Prefers: AL

Return the character used for command line switches.

Support for changing the switch character varies between DOS versions and DOS vendors. When not supported, the standard / (0x2f) should be returned by the macro.

Example:

    GetSwitchChar AL     ; get the command line switch character

See also SetSwitchChar