In rec.autos.tech, on Sat, 18 May 2019 14:45:57 +0100, "J. P. Gilliver
(John)" wrote:

In message , micky
writes:
In alt.windows7.general, on Wed, 15 May 2019 22:28:13 +0300, micky
wrote:


It's sort of like the fact that Windows file managers will sort on any
field hat has a column header, but they will not display files in the
order in which they appear on the HDD or the flash drive. For that you
need DOS and the option iirc dir /u for unsorted.

Just checked and /u gives sUmmary information.

In TCC/Le and Take Command (command enhancers. First one free, both more
powerful than DOS):

Display order is controlled by /o and unsorted is /o:u

It might be the same in DOS, but I find little reason to use straight
DOS anymore, unless I'm using someone else's computer.

I've just tried - the "DOS" in my system ("ver" returns "Microsoft
Windows [Version 6.1.7601]") doesn't mention u in the help returned by
dir /?, and if I enter dir /o:u, says

Parameter format not correct - "u".

JPG
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Thanks for checking that out. That's why I like TCC/Le so much.

I think I bought Norton Utilities about 25 years ago and it came with
Norton DOS, which was their name for 4DOS which was the predecessor for
Take Command and TCC/Le. The second one is free and once installed
requires no maintenance (Well, maybe I had to fiddle to get the window
to fill the screen, but that would have been true of regular DOS also.)

Take Command has even more features, I guess, but I can't imagine what
else I could use. TCC/le already has more than I can remember.

I think it's interesting that unsorted gets so little attention. I
would think that would be the standard format and you'd have to do
something to get things sorted.

In this case with the flashdrive, since the songs were written to the
flashdrive in the order they were recorded to the HDD blank drive,
unsorted and sorted by ascending date/time are the same thing, but the
car radios didn't have a way to sort by date or time. And when there
were over 600 songs, it seems like a bit of work for the radio to sort
things alphabetically, but that's what all but one of the radios did.

OTOH, my $16 gizmo that plugs into the cigarette lighter and lets me
plug in a flashdrive and transmits on FM to the car radio has no trouble
playing the songs in the order they are stored on the flashdrive.


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