Re: [Freedos-devel] Toggling directories
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. ___ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
Re: [Freedos-devel] Toggling directories
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 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 > ___ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
[Freedos-devel] Toggling directories
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
