Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!bellcore!faline!thumper!ulysses!andante!princeton!udel!rochester!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!upvax!stevewa From: stevewa@upvax.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: Dos replacements Summary: Batch files!!!!! Keywords: DOS Message-ID: <437@upvax.UUCP> Date: 3 Jun 88 20:05:33 GMT References: <858@uvm-gen.UUCP> Reply-To: stevewa@upvax.UUCP (Steve Ward) Organization: University of Portland, Portland, OR Lines: 26 Posted: Fri Jun 3 16:05:33 1988 In article <858@uvm-gen.UUCP> opergb@uvm-gen.UUCP (Gary Bushey) writes: > >Does anyone have a program that will or know how to replace commands >in DOS. For example, I wish to have ls instead of dir. > >Either E-mail or post please > >Thanks in advance. > >Gary Bushey >E-mail: opergb@uvm-gen If you don't want to go for the extra cost or work to find the programs, like Picnix or the alternate command shells, just set up a bunch of batch files with the appropriate commands. For example, here's what a file "LS.BAT" would look like: @echo off dir/w %1 %2 The only drawback to this method is that even though the batch file is only about 30 bytes long, it'll still take up 2K on your disk (DOS minimum cluster size). Of course, the Picnix version of ls is well over 2K long, so this might be a worthwhile tradeoff. You must make the decision. Steve