Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: $Revision: 1.6.2.14 $; site uiucdcs.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!seaburg From: seaburg@uiucdcs.UUCP Newsgroups: net.micro.pc Subject: Re: Re: Sorting PC directories Message-ID: <24700066@uiucdcs.UUCP> Date: Thu, 20-Sep-84 20:58:00 EDT Article-I.D.: uiucdcs.24700066 Posted: Thu Sep 20 20:58:00 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 25-Sep-84 21:14:12 EDT References: <290@cca.UUCP> Lines: 14 Nf-ID: #R:cca:-29000:uiucdcs:24700066:000:388 Nf-From: uiucdcs!seaburg Sep 20 19:58:00 1984 To sort a directory, enter dir | sort If you don't want it to scroll away from you before you can read it, try dir | sort | more instead. SORT and MORE are not resident commands in DOS 2.1, so they must be on the disk. These create temporary files for the pipeline, so you must have enough space for them also. (The temporary files get erased at the end of the pipe, I believe.)