Re: GLUG: Windows going the linux route ? BIZARRE!!!

["Jonathan Jankelson-Groll" <jonathanjg@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Me too this is getting truly bizzare!
ls does indeed work on a dos box on my win98 machine without the 
cygnus tools installed!!!

Cheers
Jonathan




On 30 Jun 00, at 9:36, jvrenmo@xxxxxxxx wrote:

> Mistakenly ... I opened my Win9x, DOS window, and being so used to my
> favoroute o/s I typed ls -al,
> Got what I wanted, and then realised, I was still in win9x ...weird ... So
> ... I tried it on a couple of machines here ... and all had it .. all M$
> machines have ls -al as a command. Weird .. but good. I kinda laughed at
> the whole idea, maybe someone can test it, or gimme some more info .. hehe
> ...
> 
> C:\WINDOWS\Desktop>ls -al
> drw-rw-rw--      0 Wed Jul 28 00:34:08 1999  .
> drw-rw-rw--      0 Wed Jul 28 00:34:08 1999  ..
> -rw-rw-rw-a    967 Wed May 31 08:25:44 2000  rconsole.pif
> dr--r--r---      0 Wed Jul 28 00:37:52 1999  mybrie~1
> -rw-rw-rw-a    475 Mon Jun 26 16:56:56 2000  cuteftp.lnk
> -rw-rw-rw-a    285 Wed Jul 28 00:54:16 1999  explorer.lnk
> -rw-rw-rw-a    337 Wed Jun 07 15:12:30 2000  lotusn~1.lnk
> -rw-rw-rw-a    447 Wed Jul 28 11:07:28 1999  qvt-term.lnk
> -rw-rw-rw-a    293 Tue Nov 02 11:47:14 1999  authma~1.lnk
> -rw-rw-rw-a    458 Thu Oct 28 09:44:02 1999  termin~1.lnk
> -rw-rw-rw-a    428 Thu Oct 28 09:45:16 1999  pirch98.lnk
> -rw-rw-rw-a    299 Fri Jan 07 16:29:58 2000  ageofe~1.lnk
> 
> 
> Anycase, it might be me going mad aswell .... had a long night, lotta
> drinks ...
> 
> 
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