Do a "help dir" for more switches. Amazing. I didn't know all that was available...

I think the "Help <cmdname>" function disappeared from Windows about the time Win98 came out. Last time I was able to use that was either in Win 3.1 or Win 95. Doesn't work for me anymore.

But I do have a booklet I prepared "WINDOWS 95 COMMAND LINE FUNCTIONS" by doing what you suggested: "Help cmdname >> outfile" for each command, then prettied up the outfile with a word processor, printed it up and stapled it together. Been using it for at least 5 years now.

But wait a minute -- my booklet says: "Switches may be preset in the DIRCMD environment variable. Override preset switches by prefixing any switch with a hyphen."

What does this mean? How would I preset my switches in the DIRCMD environment variable?

tanstaafl.