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Error in LS.EXE


From: Michael Salem
Subject: Error in LS.EXE
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 18:14:01 GMT

There appears to be an error in the version of LS.EXE for use at a 
Windows MS-DOS prompt.

Tested on 2 machines running Win98 SE, both on local and Netware 
drives.

The -d or --directory option does not seem to work recursively.

Thus, on a machine with many subdirectories, LS -dR C:\
(or -d -R or --directory -R)
produces the output 
C:\

only.

Usage: C:\CD\TOOLS\UNIX\LS.EXE [OPTION]... [FILE]...
Report bugs to address@hidden
ls (GNU fileutils) 3.16
-rwxrwxrwx   1 user        57856 Thu Nov 11 00:00:00 1999 ls.exe

By the way, it would be useful for DOS/Win versions not to report the
number of users via a command-line switch. Of course, this may be 
considered an undesirable modification to a platform-independent 
tool.

As somebody commented when I reported a very blatant error in the 
MS-DOS version of another utility that hadn't been picked up, maybe 
nobody is using these tools in DOS/Win?

Best wishes,
-- 
Michael Salem



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