Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1998 12:36:23 -0600
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To: opendos AT delorie DOT com
From: Jerry Pennington <jerrypenni AT townsqr DOT com>
Subject: Re: Microsoft syntax for DIR
Reply-To: opendos AT delorie DOT com

That would be great.  Thanks for the offer; I am an old MS-DOS user also,
and those switches are more natural.  Please let me know how to get to the
site where it will be posted.
                                             Jerry

At 09:26 AM 12/11/98 -0700, you wrote:
>
>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
>
>