On 20 Dec 04  07:46:14, Dale Shipp got back to Dan Ceppa 
-> Re: MSDOS.SYS

 DC> Is there a setting in 4DOS to allow that?  

 DS> Not a setting, but you can do it with an alias.

Same thing AFAIK!  

 DS> system attribute.  You could get a little more fancy and use the
 DS> alias as sdir = *dir /a /t
 DS> so that you would see the attributes in the dir listing.

That worked!  The /ARHS didn't though.  Perhaps there should 
have bee slashes in that setting?  

 DS> *dir above is to take care of the possibility that the original dir
 DS> was aliased to something else -- * forces the original
 DS> function even if the name has been aliased to a different function.

I try to avoid aliases whenever possible.  It's too easy to forget 
what directory you are in and do so nasty stuff to it!  


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