JdBP>> It wasn't Rex that changed the output format, by the way; it was
 JdBP>> Microsoft, first in the CMD.EXE for OS/2 1.1 (which supported long
 JdBP>> filenames), and then again in the COMMAND.COM for DOS+Windows 95.
 JS> A bit off-topic, but how could Microsoft have changed it in CMD.EXE 
 JS> OS/2 is IBM product :)
OS/2 since version 2.0 (we are now on version 4.0) has been solely an IBM 
product.  OS/2 version 1.1, which was the first version of OS/2 to support 
HPFS and long filenames, was a joint effort by IBM and Microsoft.  Microsoft 
based the functionality of OS/2's command interpreter, CMD.EXE, on the 
behaviour of MS-DOS COMMAND.COM (although it isn't quite the same, since 
CMD.EXE supports things like START, DETACH, and multiple commands on one 
line), but changed the output format of its DIR command to display the 
filename in the last field so that long filenames could be displayed in full.
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