Date:	Wed, 12 Mar 1997 20:18:06 -0500 (EST)
From:	Paul W Brannan <brannanp AT musc DOT edu>
To:	sylphid <sylphid AT infomatch DOT com>
cc:	opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net
Subject:	Re: [opendos] hi
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> one thing that's definately missing is a "/s" commandline option in the DIR
> command.  it's kind of a pain not to be able to recursively search
> directories when i've lost a vital file.

Try XDIR /S.  And the OpenDOS equivalent of DIR /AS is XDIR +S.

> one thing that's not so important, but still kind of annoying, is that a
> multi-config on bootup would be nice.  i had my ms-dos all configured with
> several options (load everything, minimal boot, etc) and now i have to
> manually go through and pick stuff to load if i want to run a
> memory-intensive game.

There are some multi-config options, but they are not the same as
MS-DOS's.  I used to have a multi-config setup with DR-DOS on my old 286,
but I don't remember how I set it up.  I had to use (ick) goto's and SET=
commands (so that autoexec.bat would pick up on my config.sys selections
and act accordingly).

I'm wondering if, now that OpenDOS is getting more popular, if I should
add a "Help with switching from MS-DOS" section to my web page.  Anyone
interested in seeing this?

Paul Brannan
brannanp AT musc DOT edu

Check out http://null.musc.edu/opendos/ for information on how to fix your
opendos problems.

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