Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!uwvax!oddjob!ncar!noao!mcdsun!mcdchg!clyde!rcj@moss.ATT.COM From: rcj@moss.ATT.COM Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Bug in ddir (posted to comp.binaries.ibm.pc) Message-ID: <23891@clyde.ATT.COM> Date: 26 Mar 88 13:58:00 GMT Sender: nuucp@clyde.ATT.COM Reply-To: rcj@clyde.ATT.COM (Curtis Jackson) Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Whippany NJ Lines: 35 This is a problem with ddir, which was recently posted to comp.binaries.ibm.pc -- I'm running DOS 2.11: Output of the regular dir command: Volume in drive D is HARD RAM Directory of D:\ BIN 3-03-88 8:55a LIB 3-03-88 8:56a AUTOEXEC BAT 159 3-26-88 9:47a CONFIG SYS 71 3-25-88 6:17p TMP 3-03-88 9:06a SYS 3-03-88 10:21a WORK 3-04-88 3:42p 7 File(s) 184320 bytes free Output of ddir: Volume in drive D is HARD RA LIB 3-03-88 8:56a SYS 3-03-88 10:21a AUTOEXEC BAT 159 3-26-88 9:47a TMP 3-03-88 9:06a BIN 3-03-88 8:55a WORK 3-04-88 3:42p CONFIG SYS 71 3-25-88 6:17p 7 Control characters removed to protect your terminals -- suffice it to say that the "Volume" header screwed up the first two lines of real directory listing output royally. Does this thing work correctly on later versions of DOS only? The MAD Programmer -- 201-386-6409 (Cornet 232) alias: Curtis Jackson ...![ ihnp4 ulysses ucbvax allegra ]!moss!rcj ...![ ihnp4 ucbvax akgua watmath ]!clyde!rcj