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From: erk@americ.UUCP (Erick Parsons)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: My AmigaDOS 1.4 wishlist (one among thousands!)
Message-ID: <1390.AA1390@americ>
Date: 29 Jul 89 16:44:04 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga
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>From: xanthian@well.UUCP (Kent Paul Dolan) Message-ID: <12878@well.UUCP>
>
>Smarten up the dir command to put the maximum possible number of columns of
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>file names, depending on the longest name in each column plus a bit of
>spacing, rather than a fixed two columns.

There is a PD (Shareware?) directory command called 'ls' that columnates 
directory listings in as many rows as can possibly be displayed on the screen
(even more w/morerows). Twas posted about 2-3 months ago if my memory serves
me right. Listings are sorted alphabetically w/ options to alter the sorting 
method.

Options include:   (invoked by typing ls -?) 

by Justin V. McCormick 1988
Usage: ls [-cdflnrstR] [path1] [path2] ...
 c > Show comments
 d > Dirs only
 f > Files only
 l > Long listing
 n > No sort
 r > Reverse sort
 s > Sort by size
 t > Sort by date
 R > Recursive listing

Here it is for those who missed it...
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