Command Compatibility

[Andrew Moore]

on my old redhat box, "/usr/bin/dir" came from gnu fileutils.

-Andy

On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 01:19:45PM +0000, Jonathan Hutchins wrote:
> Most of the Linux versions I've messed with, as well as some VMS and Unix 
> systems, understand that "dir" means "ls".  I suspect that this is either 
> very basic - IE written into the shell - or it's simply an add-on "DOSUtils" 
> package.  Anybody know for sure?
> 
> The question comes up because a recent version of OS-X does NOT understand 
> "dir".
> 
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