in modern versions of dos you can
dir/b/p *.bat *.com *.exe

So just make a dir2.bat file and set path variable to it in autoexec.bat

i use this dirr.bat file (btw dirr is faster to type than dir2 😉 )

@echo off
@dir/p *.bat
@pause
@dir/p *.com
@pause
@dir/p *.exe

since then I have customized NDIR to display only com/exe/bat ... still dir2 was better 🤣 it displayed them in different colors 😁 🤣 🤣

Maybe you'd like this variant.

keropi, you're tempting me to start playing back with batch programming and ANSI.SYS!!! And it is very addictive! 😀

Malik: I am still using Bat(ch) files when I use Dosbox for some of my games, cause it is way easier to make a bat file, when you have a friend who wants a pretty easy way to play his old SSI rpg games and so forth.

rcblanke i wonder why he arranged that in lines not columns, also dir/bw arranges in lines. Even windows has most views arranged in lines. Is it easier for anyone to read that in lines??

rcblanke wrote:

Maybe you'd like this variant.

I think I will be using this D program of yours, I was always wanted the 4DOS colored directory listing, without 4DOS. Thanks!

P.S. Here a bunch of related utils:
http://www.resoo.org/docs/dos/free_software/dirutil.htm