Hi:

Where could I get du for the MS-DOS operating system? Thanks.

Assuming your got a MSDOS/Windows partition or drive already mounted under Linux,
you simply execute 'du /windows' to get what you want.

If you haven't then mount the partition / drive using 'sudo' with something like:
'sudo mount -t vfat /dev/windows /media/disk1' where /dev/windows is the drive & partition
on which windows exist (i.e.: /dev/hda0) and where disk1 is a directory you have under the
/media directory under linux. If not do 'sudo mkdir /media/disk1' will do that.

If that is not what your asking then you will have to be more specific.

Cheers.

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The du command is disc usage not list, so that's not correct.

del only deletes files AFAIK, deltree is needed to delete directories.

The easiest way to get linux utilities onto a DOS or windows system is to use cygwin.

Sorry for not having been more specific. I once downloaded, from the web, a version of less that could be run under the MS-DOS operating system. This being the case, I assume there must be plenty of other linux utilities that can be run under DOS somewhere in the web. But I do not know any such site. Do you, guys, know one?

Notice I do not mean Windo$s but plain DOS.

Sorry for the double post but I had just about to click 'send' when yours arrived. I see you've catch the meaning of my post. Yes, I have heard about cygwin. Perhaps, this is the solution I'll adopt. Thank you very much.

An alternative to Cygwin would be the coreutils package from GnuWin32:

http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/coreutils.htm

Thanks a lot, brianL.

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