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DIR /s/-p
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DIR /s to get a listing without pausing at each screeenfull. That's how it works in W2000 and XP, and AFAIK has always been thus, despite the comment in the Help message. -- Jeff Richards MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User) "Howard Kaikow" wrote in message ... According to the help for dir, I would expect the same behavior as in Widows 2000. But the "-' is being ignored. |
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DIR /s/-p
"Jeff Richards" wrote in message
... Use DIR /s to get a listing without pausing at each screeenfull. That's how it works in W2000 and XP, and AFAIK has always been thus, despite the comment in the Help message. Not in Windows 2000. dir/s pauses on each screen. |
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DIR /s/-p
"Western Infidels" wrote in message
... On Sun, 8 Jun 2008 08:15:10 -0400, "Howard Kaikow" wrote: According to the help for dir, I would expect the same behavior as in Widows 2000. But the "-' is being ignored. What did it do in Windows 2000? In Win 2000, dir /s pauses after each screen. One has to use dir/s/-p to avoid the pauses. The help for "dir" lists the "-" modifier only in the file-attributes section and the sort-order section. It doesn't look like it's intended to be a general-purpose modifier. If you want a recursive listing without paging, doesn't "dir /s" do it? In Vista, seems so. Seems that -p and p do the same thing. That change could break programs from earlier versions that shell a command line, and process the resultant output. Folkes at MSFT were just not thinking when they made such changes in Vista. |
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DIR /s/-p
I tested it before posting, and for both W2k and XP as used here dir/s does
not pause. If DIRCMD is set to /p then using dir /s/-p will display the listing without pausing. Perhaps your W2k system had the DIRCMD setting and Vista does not. -- Jeff Richards MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User) "Howard Kaikow" wrote in message ... "Jeff Richards" wrote in message ... Use DIR /s to get a listing without pausing at each screeenfull. That's how it works in W2000 and XP, and AFAIK has always been thus, despite the comment in the Help message. Not in Windows 2000. dir/s pauses on each screen. |
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DIR /s/-p
"Jeff Richards" wrote in message
... I tested it before posting, and for both W2k and XP as used here dir/s does not pause. If DIRCMD is set to /p then using dir /s/-p will display the listing without pausing. Perhaps your W2k system had the DIRCMD setting and Vista does not. It's been so long, I do not recall how to check or set DIRCMD. |
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DIR /s/-p
to check -
set to set - set DIRCMD=/p -- Jeff Richards MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User) "Howard Kaikow" wrote in message ... snip It's been so long, I do not recall how to check or set DIRCMD. |
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