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From: "Braden, Flash" <cbraden AT visa DOT com>
To: "'opendos AT delorie DOT com'" <opendos AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: RE: Microsoft syntax for DIR
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1998 09:51:03 -0800
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A winner for sure.  I await your post.  There is
no good reason for having to deal with multiple
syntaxes for the same function.

-Flash->

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> From: 	raster AT highfiber DOT com[SMTP:raster AT highfiber DOT com]
> Sent: 	Friday, December 11, 1998 8:26 AM
> To: 	opendos AT delorie DOT com
> Subject: 	Microsoft syntax for DIR
> 
> 
> Well, I finally did it.  After typing DIR /OD /P for the ninety-ninth
> time, then translating that to XDIR /T /P (and *then* trying to use
> the spacebar to page through the listing....) I finally broke down and
> wrote the code.  Now I can use the switches the I'm used to, like /S
> /O and /A, with DIR.  Nagging annoyance solved.
> 
> Does anybody else want this widget?  I could polish up the doc file a
> bit, zip it and and pip it to the website sometime today, if there's
> any interest.
> 
> raster AT highfiber DOT com
>