On Thu, 11 Aug 2011 08:16 -0500, "Matt Slay"

<mattslay@jordanmachine.com> wrote:

> However, if you use Dir *.*, then what FoxPro spits out is some dorky

> sideways list of just file names, without the date and filesize. It's

> just

> really hard to read. What were they thinking?

Probably they were thinking "this DIR command dates from xbase days, VFP

isn't an OS, so why go nuts formatting the output, there are better ways

like Adir() or Windows scripting."

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Alan Bourke

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