Re: [Freedos-user] FreeCom: Wrong DIR behavior on empy disks.

2011-08-07 Thread cm
Also, using the all-numeric representation (2011-08-02 18:09:06) makes DIR dead simple for localization. There are no strings to replace. Except if a 12-hour time format is desired. Regards, Christian --

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeCom: Wrong DIR behavior on empy disks.

2011-08-07 Thread dos386
Jim wrote: I like this one: 2011-08-02 18:09:06 just make it the default ;-) cm wrote: Except if a 12-hour time format is desired no point ;-) -- BlackBerryreg; DevCon Americas, Oct. 18-20, San Francisco, CA The

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeCom: Wrong DIR behavior on empy disks.

2011-08-06 Thread dos386
Why not 18'446'744'073'709'551'615 ??? Comma and dot are usually used to separate fractional part: PI = 3.14159265358979 That's a nice idea, though at first glance a bit odd looking. Any systems using this upper [`] or ['] ? FASM :-) Using it in all my sources :-) The ASCII code is 39. The

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeCom: Wrong DIR behavior on empy disks.

2011-08-06 Thread Jim Hall
How's DIR gonna sort by date when AUG goes before JUL Don't spell the month out if there is a risk of sort, see older post: I like this one: 2011-08-02 18:09:06 But not these: 2011-08(Aug)-02 (Tue) 18:09:06 (sorts well) or 2011-Aug-02 Tue 18:09:06 (doesn't sort well) so default

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeCom: Wrong DIR behavior on empy disks.

2011-08-04 Thread dos386
* number: nnn.nnn.nnn,xyz (european) Why not 18'446'744'073'709'551'615 ??? Comma and dot are usually used to separate fractional part: PI = 3.14159265358979 * separater: ehm no idea. Of who or what ? * keyboard: QWERTY with EURO (858 thus), still not managed to get a euro-sign in DOS but

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeCom: Wrong DIR behavior on empy disks.

2011-08-04 Thread David C. Kerber
-Original Message- From: dos386 [mailto:dos...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2011 8:32 AM To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] FreeCom: Wrong DIR behavior on empy disks. ... and use AM/PM time, e.g.: Horrible :-( Tue 02 Aug 2011

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeCom: Wrong DIR behavior on empy disks.

2011-08-04 Thread dos386
2011-Aug-02 Tue 18:09:06 That one doesn't sort very well either (puts April next to August) Indeed :-( so 2011-08-02 18:09:06 or 2011-08(Aug)-02 (Tue) 18:09:06 -- BlackBerryreg; DevCon Americas, Oct. 18-20, San

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeCom: Wrong DIR behavior on empy disks.

2011-08-04 Thread David C. Kerber
-Original Message- From: dos386 [mailto:dos...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2011 9:10 AM To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] FreeCom: Wrong DIR behavior on empy disks. 2011-Aug-02 Tue 18:09:06 That one doesn't sort very well either

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeCom: Wrong DIR behavior on empy disks.

2011-08-04 Thread Single Stage to Orbit
On Thu, 2011-08-04 at 06:10 -0700, dos386 wrote: 2011-08-02 18:09:06 My vote's on the ISO 8601 standard (like above) - it makes it easy to sort directories in date order. I recommend FreeDOS adopts the ISO 8601 standard, and only convert dates for humans based on their country/locale. --

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeCom: Wrong DIR behavior on empy disks.

2011-08-04 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Op 4-8-2011 14:32, dos386 schreef: * number: nnn.nnn.nnn,xyz (european) Why not 18'446'744'073'709'551'615 ??? Comma and dot are usually used to separate fractional part: PI = 3.14159265358979 That's a nice idea, though at first glance a bit odd looking. Any systems using this upper [`] or

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeCom: Wrong DIR behavior on empy disks.

2011-08-04 Thread cm
Why not 18'446'744'073'709'551'615 ??? Comma and dot are usually used to separate fractional part: PI = 3.14159265358979 That's a nice idea, though at first glance a bit odd looking. Any systems using this upper [`] or ['] ? I considered adding the single quote ' as separator to my

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeCom: Wrong DIR behavior on empy disks.

2011-08-02 Thread dos386
... or all the other date formattings No point of existence ;-) German dd.mm. hh:mm 1.000,00 for COUNTRY than BIOS default US QWERTY) are totally different I prefer to keep things simple (QWERTY, @ and \ discoverable) and convenient (-MM-DD HH:MM:SS) - no need for messing up

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeCom: Wrong DIR behavior on empy disks.

2011-08-02 Thread e . auer
Hi dos386, ... or all the other date formattings No point of existence ;-) I hope zou do not think that about other countries as well... German dd.mm. hh:mm 1.000,00 for COUNTRY than BIOS default US QWERTY) are totally different I prefer to keep things simple (QWERTY, @ and \

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeCom: Wrong DIR behavior on empy disks.

2011-08-01 Thread e . auer
Hi Bernd, Dos386, I'd like to see -MM-DD (with dashes) and without COUNTRY. ... or Japanese MMDD as Bernd mentioned ... makes sorting files by date so much easier. :-) ...or all the other date formattings: You can just set your country depending on your taste. As long as you do

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeCom: Wrong DIR behavior on empy disks.

2011-07-30 Thread dos386
intentionally, as far as I remember for mimicking MS style EDR-DOS doesn't have this bug ;-) If MS COMMAND.COM for DOS didn't have a setting for 4-digit year Another one: all dates should be -MM-DD and times without the silly a and p -- ~~~ wow ~~~

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeCom: Wrong DIR behavior on empy disks.

2011-07-30 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Op 30-7-2011 15:05, Zbigniew schreef: Another one: all dates should be -MM-DD and times without the silly a and p ...or could respect the convention: - when dash used as separator - date is -MM-DD - when dot - date format is DD.MM. - when slash - the format is MM/DD/ Such

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeCom: Wrong DIR behavior on empy disks.

2011-07-30 Thread dos386
I'd like to see -MM-DD (with dashes) and without COUNTRY. makes sorting files by date so much easier. :-) -- ~~~ wow ~~~ -- Got Input? Slashdot Needs You. Take our quick survey online. Come on, we don't ask

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeCom: Wrong DIR behavior on empy disks.

2011-07-29 Thread dos386
IIRC I had reported this BUG some time ago ... if volume is empty, I want to see how much space for bloat I have ;-) -- ~~~ wow ~~~ -- Got Input? Slashdot Needs You. Take our quick survey online. Come on, we don't

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeCom: Wrong DIR behavior on empy disks.

2011-07-29 Thread Eric Auer
Hi for the third, IIRC I had reported this BUG some time ago ... if volume is empty, I want to see how much space for bloat I have ;-) That is not a bug, dos386. FreeCOM command.com DIR does this intentionally, as far as I remember for mimicking MS style, which in turn might be necessary for