Hi Ralph,
> On Nov 15, 2022, at 1:26 PM, Ralf Quint wrote:
>
> On 11/9/2022 7:26 AM, Jerome Shidel 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 -
On 11/9/2022 7:26 AM, Jerome Shidel 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
On Sat, 12 Nov 2022, tom ehlert wrote:
maybe even one of our assembler gurus looks at published sources of
msdos 2.01
The 2.11 sources won't say anything here, as the DIRCMD stuff wasn't
introduced to MS-DOS until 5.0.
I checked the behavior with PC DOS 2000 since that was my preferred
> In general, I find that toggling options are a bad idea. Things
> just get too confusing, especially if you have multiple "sources"
> for the options (like combinations of internal/compile-time default
> settings, environment variables, options entered through a batch
> file, options entered
Hi Bret,
> In general, I find that toggling options are a bad idea. Things just
> get too confusing, especially if you have multiple "sources" for the
> options (like combinations of internal/compile-time default settings,
> environment variables, options entered through a batch file, options
>
In general, I find that toggling options are a bad idea. Things just get too
confusing, especially if you have multiple "sources" for the options (like
combinations of internal/compile-time default settings, environment variables,
options entered through a batch file, options entered via a
On Fri, 11 Nov 2022, tom ehlert wrote:
virtually all options toggle, but someone probably noted that /P
should not toggle, because even after
set DIRCMD=/P
DIR /P
should still pause.
MSDOS probably has not toggling at all (I'm not sure; someone who is not
named Tom should test this), and
Hallo Herr Jerome Shidel,
am Mittwoch, 9. November 2022 um 16:26 schrieben Sie:
> 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
Jerome Shidel said:
> There is a minor compatibility difference
> with the FreeCOM DIR command.
> Most of the option switches work like toggles.
I prefer the FreeCOM way.
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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 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
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
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