Re: HTML help documents

Imre Leber <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freedos.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 10:27 AM
Subject: Re: [fd-dev] HTML help documents


> On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, tom ehlert wrote:
>
> > I agree. for COMMAND.COM,
> > C:>DIR /?
> > gives you a start, though
> > C:>DIR /?
> > tells you, that you can sort the listing with /O, and that you can
search
> > for
> > attributes with /A, which is complete bullshit.
>
> What's so wrong with DIR /? in regards of /A and /O ??
>
>  /A         Displays files with specified attributes.
>             [ATTRIBUTE SELECTION NOT IMPLEMENTED, YET; /A is /ADRHS]
>  attributes  D  Directories                R  Read-only files
>              H  Hidden files               A  Files ready for archiving
>              S  System files               -  Prefix meaning not
>  /O         List by files in sorted order. [NOT IMPLEMENTED, YET]
>  sortorder   N  By name (alphabetic)       S  By size (smallest first)
>              E  By extension (alphabetic)  D  By date & time (earliest
> first)
>              G  Group directories first    -  Prefix to reverse order
>              A  By Last Access Date (earliest first)
>
> Moreover, the Help file, also located at:
> http://freedos.sourceforge.net/freecom/cmd.html#dir
> does not mention /O nor an argumented /A.
>

Isn't it pecular that the only FreeDOS utility that can give you a sorted
directory listing is one that has absolutely no advertised functionality
whatsoever.

Maybe advertised is the good word.Well defrag beta 0.3 will be out soon
enough.

Imre

> Bye,
>
> --
>
> Steffen Kaiser
>
> The current maintainer of [email protected]
> http://freedos.sourceforge.net/freecom/FreeCOM.html
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