Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!agate!darkstar!helios!ted From: ted@helios.ucsc.edu (Ted Cantrall) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: Re: Buerg's new LIST-PLUS and 4DOS Message-ID: <6574@darkstar.ucsc.edu> Date: 4 Sep 90 15:26:19 GMT References: <15029@shlump.nac.dec.com> Sender: usenet@darkstar.ucsc.edu Reply-To: ted@helios.ucsc.edu (Ted Cantrall) Distribution: usa Organization: UCO/Lick Observatory, Santa Cruz Lines: 18 >>While List-Plus (found in LIST74A.ZIP) is terrific and works >>beautifully under MS-DOS, it doesn't work as well as its junior >>editions LISTS.COM or LISTR.COM under 4DOS. > >I think you need to disable 4DOS's internal LIST command for any external >program named LIST [.COM,.EXE,.BAT] to work. It says how in the 4DOS manual. > That is done with the Alias command. The problem is, each time you type "LIST" (trying to get the list74a), you get the list command in 4DOS. Either use the alias command in 4dos to make "list" point to the program of your choice, or rename the list-plus program to LISTP.COM or somthing else like that.... -ted- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ted@helios.ucsc.edu |"He has showed you, O man, what is good; and what does the W (408)459-2110 |Lord require of you but to do justice and to love kindness H (408)423-2444 |and to walk humbly with your God?" Micah 6:8 (RSV)