Hi.
My main interest is using Freedos+HX as a substitute for Windows 95.
Recent unrelated (PDOS/386) advances mean that this goal is
now possibly within reach - I'm still looking and I will be reporting
any issues.
First is cosmetic.
If I do "dir /?" under Freedos 1.3 I get this:
DIR [drive:][path][filename] [/P] [/W] [/A[[:]attributes]]
[/O[[:]sortorder]] [/S] [/B] [/L] [/V]
[drive:][path][filename]
Specifies drive, directory, and/or files to list.
(Could be enhanced file specification or multiple filespecs.)
/P Pauses after each screenful of information.
/W Uses wide list format.
/A Displays files with specified attributes. (Defaults to /ADHSRA)
attributes D Directories R Read-only files
H Hidden files A Files ready for archiving
S System files - Prefix meaning not
/O List by files in sorted order.
sortorder N By name (alphabetic) S By size (smallest first)
E By extension (alphabetic) D By date & time (earliest
first)
G Group directories first - Prefix to reverse order
U Unsorted Defaults to /ONG
/S Displays files in specified directory and all subdirectories.
/B Uses bare format (no heading information or summary).
/L Uses lowercase.
/Y or /4 Display 4-digit year.
Switches may be preset in the DIRCMD environment variable. Override
preset switches by prefixing any switch with - (hyphen)--for example, /-W.
C:\>
You can see right near the top that "/V" is shown as an option,
but there is no explanation for it. Also it doesn't actually work.
I assume it should say "/Y".
The second issue is that "dir" requires me to do a "*.*" after
the partial filename. I checked MSDOS 6.22 and that does
not require that. ie under MSDOS 6.22 I can just do
"dir au*" to see my files. But Freedos does:
C:\>dir au*
Volume in drive C is FREEDOS
Volume Serial Number is A491-CD18
File not found.
C:\>dir au*.*
Volume in drive C is FREEDOS
Volume Serial Number is A491-CD18
Directory of C:\
AUTOEXEC BAT 208 04-30-22 9:37a
1 file(s) 208 bytes
0 dir(s) 60,350,464 bytes free
C:\>
Thanks. Paul.
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