Agreed. To me this is a bug. Not a major one, but a bug.
Aitor On Wed, 9 Nov 2022 at 16:28, Jerome Shidel <jer...@shidel.net> wrote: > Hi all, > > There is a minor compatibility difference with the FreeCOM DIR command. > > Most of the option switches work like toggles. For example: > > dir /w - shows a wide listing > dir /w /w - shows a normal listing > dir /w /w /w - shows a wide listing > > This deviates from MS-DOS > > dir /w - shows a wide listing > dir /w /w - shows a wide listing > > To toggle it back off MS-DOS requires the /-w switch and works fine with > the FreeCOM DIR. > > When used through an alias like “set alias ls=dir /w” then executing “ls > /w” it produce results different from what is expected. > > Not all options perform toggling. For example: > > dir /p - pauses per page > dir /p /p - pauses per page > > I don’t think the toggling is very important. But, it does deviant from > MS-DOS. > I do think that consistency across the options is important. > > Any thoughts? > > :-) > > Jerome > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-devel mailing list > Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel >
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