Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1996 16:47:12 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Chris Waters <design AT netcom DOT com>
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Changing directories with Bash?
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On Tue, 26 Nov 1996, Chris Waters wrote:

> What's "dir"?  What's 'd'?  Normally, "dir" is a COMMAND.COM builtin,
> and doesn't work under Unix-like shells for DOS.  Are these some sort of
> builtins added to the DOS version of bash, or scripts you wrote, or
> something entirely different?

`d' and `dir' are programs from GNU Fileutils ported to DJGPP.  `dir' is 
just like `ls -l', and `d' is a symlink to `dir'.