[Tutor] EXE Problem

[Dave Angel]

On 06/19/2013 06:58 PM, Alan Gauld wrote:
> On 19/06/13 17:41, Jim Mooney wrote:
>
>> you should use forward slashes. I have no idea why Bill Gates thought
>> backslashes were kewl
>
> Because MS DOS was copying CP/M which didn't have directory paths
> (it was used with 180K floppy disks that stored everything at the top
> level) but did have command options that were indicated by a
> forward slash
>
> DIR /S
>
> was a sorted directory listing etc.
>

This is straining my memory of Windows, but I think /S meant 
"subdirectory" so a listing will include subdirectories of the specified 
starting point.

The /od switch would sort by date, (I think), and the /P switch would 
paginate the output (like the earliest primitive forms of 'more').


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DaveA