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From: ralf+@cs.cmu.edu (Ralf Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.desqview
Subject: Re: DOS 5.00 - Release Notice and Features
Message-ID: <13379@pt.cs.cmu.edu>
Date: 11 Jun 91 02:44:13 GMT
References: <676327227.0@thevoid.rn> <1991Jun10.193627.18400@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
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In article <1991Jun10.193627.18400@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> phil@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Phil Howard KA9WGN) writes:
}> o DIR /s, recursive directory search
}> o DIR /o, specify sort order
}
}Well, I would still like to have a rename ability that can actually move a file
}from one directory into another just by its rename, without copying anything.

I've had that in REN for over a year.  Of course, I'm using 4DOS instead of
COMMAND.COM....  4DOS has also had the directory sorting and recursion for
a long time.

The DOS kernel has actually had the ability to rename files from one
directory into another for over seven years (since DOS 2.0), but COMMAND.COM
never caught up with the kernel's abilities (that applies in other areas
as well).
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