Re: II Funny

[gtolar@ziplink.net (Glynne Tolar)]

In article <5959c4$iiv@login.freenet.columbus.oh.us>, dalloff@freenet.columbus.oh.us (Dave Althoff) wrote:
>Edhel Iaur, Esq. (drsmooth@relex.com) wrote:
>: On 13 Dec 1996 23:42:10 -0500, dalloff@freenet.columbus.oh.us (Dave
>: Althoff) wrote:
>
>: >Hey, sometimes I have to do that under ProDOS, even though my version is
>: >patched.  I miss those 30-character filenames under DOS 3.3...
>
>: I miss flashing/inverse file names...
>
>: >Can you tell I haven't gone PC yet?  8-)
>
>: The worst state to be in is when you are exactly half switched-over,
>: so you always mix up PREFIX, CD, /, \, RENAME, REN, DELETE, and DEL.
>: :D
>
>That's the nice thing about UNIX...just add the following to your .login file:
>
>alias catalog ls -l | more
>alias delete rm
>alias prefix cd
>alias rename mv
>
>Of course, if you are working in DOS, you can accomplish the same thing by
>adding specially written .BAT files to your \DOS directory...you know, 
>catalog.bat
>prefix.bat
>delete.bat
>
>The trick, of course, is that it requires some special batch-file
>programming which is a little beyond me...

I think it is not all that special:

for catalog.bat
 dir %1 %2

etc...

However it would be better to use 4DOS.  4DOS supports aliases.

Hey, this is fun!  Off topic posts from PC users instead of Mac users!
I'm happy.