also, can't be a dos with the 'dir' command.

▲ krustowski 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

Afaik there is a 'DIR' command in MS-DOS. Anyway, what would be a better command to list a directory? I could think of 'ls' maybe

▲ onre 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

I would most likely end up with something like this:

  CAT          CATalogue - output the contents of current directory
  RM           to Raster Memory - load contents of named file in framebuffer
  MV           Make Virtual - map the file into memory and output the address
  LS           Load System - attempt to reboot using the named file as the kernel
  CD           Create Directory - self-explanatory
  SH           System Halt - immediately stop all processing

...and so on.

	▲	OccamsMirror 3 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I suggest: RM Relocate me - you could also use the "-rf" flag to relative fuzzy matching, for instance `rm -rf tmp` to find any temp-like folder near your current location. Pretty standard stuff. CD Clear data - `cd -L /temp` would "liquidate" the directory. This would be a much simpler command interface.
	▲	GTP 2 days ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		To create a file, we should take inspiration from TOPS-10 and call the command `make` [0]. When issuing `make love`, it should ask for confirmation to the user: `not war?`. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter_egg_(media)
	▲	anyfoo 3 days ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		Very good design. Implements only the essential tasks an operator would need with concise and well-known mnemonics. I’m sure this will be immediately intuitive to anyone, with no potential for mistakes whatsoever.
	▲	stuaxo 2 days ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		CAT was on the Amstrad CPC.
	▲	koziserek 3 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Love it.

▲ pjmlp 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

As someone old enough to have started on MS-DOS 3.3, dir has been there all time.

▲ rzzzt 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

CATALOG, DSPFLR, Get-ChildItem

▲ guestbest 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

It would seem to logically follow that a Disk Operating System would have a directory list utility for disks like ‘dir’. It was there in the first version called 86 DOS.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/86-DOS

	▲	AndrewDavis 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		`dir` was also in CP/M. Though it didn't have a concept of a file hierarchy, so it listed all files on the disk (but did support supplying a pattern to filter against).