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excerpt: "The CP/M resident DIR command is very limited. Files are listed in the order they vere put on the disk, unless you run a program to alphabetize the directory. File size isn’t shown. Remaining directory and disk space isn’t shown."
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# Some Directory Programs: XDIR, DIRRx, SOxxx and DA21c

The CP/M resident DIR command is very limited. Files are listed in the order they vere put on the disk, unless you run a program to alphabetize the directory. File size isn’t shown. Remaining directory and disk space isn’t shown.