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First post, by Blades

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Ok,I'm probably an idiot. But I use a compact flash drive for my dos machine(thats not the idiot part) so I can transfer crap from my main computer then put it as boot in my dos machine(with IDE to CF converter).
Problem is When I copy stuff over its the last thing that shows up when I do a DIR command. So whatever the last thing I copied it shows up last regardless if its alphabetical or not.

So for example If I copy into my Games directory

Doom
Keen
WOLF3D
on the first pass it shows as above when I do a DIR command. But if I take the card out and add other games such as LOOM and HOCUS it shows up like:

Doom
Keen
Wolf3d
Loom
Hocus

On a regular hard drive I don'[t have this issue, just on any flash card. I know its got to be simple, and I just can't remember how to fix this. Any Help would be appreciated!!! Thanks in advance!!

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Reply 1 of 2, by JayCeeBee64

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DIR /O lists all drive contents in alphabetical order (directories first).

To make this the default, add SET DIRCMD=/O to autoexec.bat.

This link has more info and options for DOS DIR command:

http://www.computerhope.com/dirhlp.htm

Ooohh, the pain......