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^Cby
^CPeter Diotte

        How many times have you typed "DIR" only to see a list of files, 
     three screens long, fly across your monitor?  If you are a speed 
     reader you might be able to spot the file you were looking for.  
     Better yet, you may have the finger dexterity of a master ninja and 
     can hit the CTRL-S key sequence in time to pause the flow of 
     information at the right spot.  Most of the time you just wait for the 
     command line to return and issue another DIR command with a /w or /p 
     switch. 

        Not anymore! With Simple Directory your DIRs are formated four 
     across as if you had used DIR's /w switch.  Simple Directory also 
     pauses and waits for a key to be pressed if the number of files 
     displayed is larger than the number of screen lines available.  This 
     is the same way DIR's /p switch works.  As a bonus SD alphabetizes the 
     files for you and puts all the subdirectories at the beginning. 

^C^1How to use SD

        SD works best when placed in a directory in your PATH statement 
     (see your AUTOEXEC.BAT file or DOS Manual for help with the PATH 
     statement).  Once there you can type SD at any prompt and your system 
     will always find it. 

        Simply put, use SD instead of DIR. That's it!

        If you only want to show .EXE files use ^1SD *.EXE^0.  When you 
     only need to see .TXT files use ^1SD *.TXT^0.  If you only want to see 
     files that start with the letter P use ^1SD P*.*^0.  All the DOS 
     wildcard functions are active in SD.  So don't be afraid to use a 
     liberal sprinkling of "*"'s and "?"'s to list only the files you want 
     to see. (Don't forget about the undocumented feature in DOS that makes 
     *xxx*.* find all files.) 

^C^1Examples of SD's use:

     SD                - The same as SD *.*.

     SD *.TXT          - List only .TXT files.

     SD ??B.*          - List all files with "B" as the third letter
                         in the file name.

     SD a:\            - List all files on drive a.

     SD d:\memos\*.txt - List all .TXT files in the noted path.



^C^1OUTSIDE OF BBD

     To run this program outside the ^1Big Blue Disk^0 menu, 
        type  ^1SD^0.

     Disk file this program uses:
^FSD.COM