Message-ID:	<32B9752D.5A86@cs.pdx.edu>
Date:	Thu, 19 Dec 1996 17:02:37 +0000
From:	Ian Romanick <idr AT cs DOT pdx DOT edu>
Reply-To:	idr AT cs DOT pdx DOT edu
Organization:	Epsilon Software
MIME-Version:	1.0
To:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	File utils are crap?

I seem to remember seeing some of this stuff posted before, but the mail
archive search stuff at delorie.com wouldn't let me find anything useful
(must of the stuff that if found when I did a search for "file utils"
was from 1994...neat!).

Anyway, are the file utils that come with 2.01 totally hosed?  Witness
the following LS antics:

C:\>ls
Autoexec.old   bin            dev            gm.bat         tmp
Config.old     bin32          djgpp2         go.bat         vbeaf.drv
My Documents   command.com    dos            gr.bat         wina20.386
Program Files  command.dos    drivers        gs.bat         windows
Utils          config.dos     games          gt.bat
autoexec.bat   config.sys     gd.bat         logo.sys
autoexec.dos   data           gf.bat         scandisk.log

C:\>ls dev
Autoexec.old   bin            dev            gm.bat         tmp
Config.old     bin32          djgpp2         go.bat         vbeaf.drv
My Documents   command.com    dos            gr.bat         wina20.386
Program Files  command.dos    drivers        gs.bat         windows
Utils          config.dos     games          gt.bat
autoexec.bat   config.sys     gd.bat         logo.sys
autoexec.dos   data           gf.bat         scandisk.log

C:\>cd dev

C:\dev>ls graphics
colorq      eglib2      font        o3d
eglib       fileform    load_s3x.c  vectors

C:\dev>cd graphics

C:\dev\graphics>ls
d:/djgpp/bin/ls: .: No such file or directory (ENOENT)

Is it just me, or is there something quite wrong with all of this?  My
system is running Win95, but it behaved the same way after doing a DOS
boot.  I should also note that LS performed quite normally on a
networked drive (mounted from a Linux box) and on my SCSI Zip Drive.  It
also seemed to work on my other SCSI hard drive.  Why does it
malfunction on my C drive?  BTW, both C and D are *identical* Fujitsu
M2624F-512 SCSI-1 hard drives.  My controller is an Adaptech 2920.

Any ideas?
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