Re: [Freedos-user] Unexpected results from DIR command

2024-06-02 Thread Daniel Essin via Freedos-user
Look at python for dos - http://www.caddit.net/pythond/ If it has the os module, I'll bet you could do it. On Sun, Jun 2, 2024, at 11:19 PM, hms--- via Freedos-user wrote: > Hi > I am looking for files named Q and not directories named Q. In my case I > have thousands of assembler text files wi

Re: [Freedos-user] VICTORY! How I got networking operational in 86Box

2024-06-02 Thread EdzUp via Freedos-user
Very good explanation, I'm hoping these findings make it to the release build of FreeDos as it will bring in more users if internet is available after all we all love tinkering with it and DOS does make it much easier 🙂 -Ed EdzUp On Mon, 3 Jun 2024, 01:36 Brandon Taylor via Freedos-user, < freedo

Re: [Freedos-user] Unexpected results from DIR command

2024-06-02 Thread hms--- via Freedos-user
Hi I am looking for files named Q and not directories named Q. In my case I have thousands of assembler text files without filename extensions. It comes from early days starting out with TSC Flex and Uniflex followed by the Mark Williams Coherent operating systems. John On 2024/06/02 22:29, t

Re: [Freedos-user] VICTORY! How I got networking operational in 86Box

2024-06-02 Thread Daniel Essin via Freedos-user
Excellect work! On Sun, Jun 2, 2024, at 5:35 PM, Brandon Taylor via Freedos-user wrote: > I've been agonizing over the question of why I can't connect an 86Box virtual > machine powered by FreeDOS to the Internet. But now, it seems, I have found a > fix, or at least a preliminary one. > > Usin

[Freedos-user] VICTORY! How I got networking operational in 86Box

2024-06-02 Thread Brandon Taylor via Freedos-user
I've been agonizing over the question of why I can't connect an 86Box virtual machine powered by FreeDOS to the Internet. But now, it seems, I have found a fix, or at least a preliminary one. Using a fine-toothed comb (as it were), I went over the FDAUTO.BAT file and found that it referenced an

Re: [Freedos-user] Unexpected results from DIR command

2024-06-02 Thread tsiegel--- via Freedos-user
 Don't know if it helps, but I've found that if you want *just* directory names, and you don't have a directory program that allows you to set flags, so it only shows directories, then the best way to get them is to do something like: dir *. Since most directory names don't have extensions, t

[Freedos-user] Unexpected results from DIR command

2024-06-02 Thread hms--- via Freedos-user
Hi All It appears that if a directory exists with the same name as the file one is searching for, the directory listing is terminated early without error. I was searching for a files named "Q" with no extension. I used the commands "DIR Q /S /B" and "DIR Q. /S /B", but it only revealed files