Patrick Elliott wrote:
> 2. Woops... This won't work without #1, so you are SOL.

Wrong, you can print colors in a Windows console. You just can't do it with
ANSI codes. A 'dir' that prints color is still possible.

> 3. Umm.. Kind of, if you string a lot of files together. I think they is
> a sort function in the DOS utilities, though I don't think it comes
> "with" Windows, and I doubt you can find DOS any more. But, it would
> work something like, "dir {flags for the stuff that is supported} | sort
> | more", easy... As long as you don't want "any" bloody real control
> over what is going on in those steps, and you don't mind looking up sets
> of commands flags you never use, for 2-3 utilities. You, well... can't
> do some of it at all in the GUI, not really, at least not as cleanly, or
> clearly, as you can in the prompt.

'dir' has switches to sort by different criteria. There is also a 'sort'
command that works as a filter you can pipe stuff into.

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