On Sun, 23 Jul 2023 09:51:24 +0800 Paul Edwards via Freedos-devel <freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> 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. Hi Paul, The /V was removed from the usage message here https://github.com/FDOS/freecom/pull/86 , so that change should be in the next release of FreeCOM. Andrew _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
