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From: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: v10i256: ls, great ls for DOS or OS/2 (part 01/02)
Keywords: ls, OS/2
Message-ID: <3486@sixhub.UUCP>
Date: 24 Mar 91 22:09:41 GMT
References: <3432@sixhub.UUCP> <1991Mar19.212356.18971@cbnewsh.att.com>
Reply-To: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (bill davidsen)
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In article <1991Mar19.212356.18971@cbnewsh.att.com> twb@cbnewsh.att.com (thomas.w.beattie) writes:

| This version of ls doesn't handle the DOS SWITCHAR at all.
| It insists on options (flags, switches) being introduced by a hyphen.
| It also marks directories with forward slashes rather than the backslashes
| actually used under DOS.

 a) the intro says it's compatible with UNIX V.3.2 ls, which uses
hyphens, forward slashes, and does not use SWITCHAR.
 b) A carefult reading of DOS manuals will inform you that *DOS* accepts
both forward and backward slashes, which *command.com* wants backslashes
so the options can be marked with a foreslash, like CP/M.

| >Reviewed by gupta!few@sun.com, (author):
| 
| Reviewed by the author??
| What good is that??

  Who better knows what the program does? If every submission came with
a useful and truthful description of the program, I'd just try the
program and not have to write the reviews on any of them.
-- 
bill davidsen - davidsen@sixhub.uucp (uunet!crdgw1!sixhub!davidsen)
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"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me