On 06/19/2013 06:58 PM, Alan Gauld wrote:
On 19/06/13 17:41, Jim Mooney wrote:
you should use forward slashes. I have no idea why Bill Gates thought
backslashes were kewl
Because MS DOS was copying CP/M which didn't have directory paths
(it was used with 180K floppy disks that stored everything at the top
level) but did have command options that were indicated by a
forward slash
DIR /S
was a sorted directory listing etc.
This is straining my memory of Windows, but I think /S meant
"subdirectory" so a listing will include subdirectories of the specified
starting point.
The /od switch would sort by date, (I think), and the /P switch would
paginate the output (like the earliest primitive forms of 'more').
--
DaveA
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