Unsorted directory listing

[Guest R. P.]

My simple MP3 player plays the songs on my USB thumb drive in the order

the files were written there, i.e., in the physical order their FAT

entries are in each directory. Unfortunately, Win Exporer, and even the

DIR command, does not seem to have an option to list the files in such

an unsorted order. Is there a way around this? I seem to vaguely recall

that in the old DOS days the DIR command did have a switch to produce

such a listing but I may remember wrong.

 

R. P.

[Guest bw]

Re: Unsorted directory listing

 

 

"R. P." <r_pol12gar@hotmail.com> wrote in message

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> I seem to vaguely recall that in the old DOS days the DIR command did

> have a switch to produce such a listing but I may remember wrong.

>

 

dir /O[opts] or you can set DIRCMD=/O[opts] environment variable, use dir /h

to get more help.

[Guest bw]

Re: Unsorted directory listing

 

uh, that's dir /? srry

[Guest R. P.]

Re: Unsorted directory listing

 

"bw" <bw@dodgit.com> wrote:

> dir /O[opts] or you can set DIRCMD=/O[opts] environment variable, use

> dir /h to get more help.

 

That was the first thing I checked but the /O switch does not have an

option to produce listing of files in an unsorted, physical order.

 

R. P.