Unsorted directory listing

[R. P.]

My simple MP3 player plays the songs on my USB thumb drive in the order
the files were written there, i.e., in the physical order their FAT
entries are in each directory. Unfortunately, Win Exporer, and even the
DIR command, does not seem to have an option to list the files in such
an unsorted order. Is there a way around this? I seem to vaguely recall
that in the old DOS days the DIR command did have a switch to produce
such a listing but I may remember wrong.

R. P.

 

[bw]

I seem to vaguely recall that in the old DOS days the DIR command did
have a switch to produce such a listing but I may remember wrong.

dir /O[opts] or you can set DIRCMD=/O[opts] environment variable, use dir /h
to get more help.

 

[bw]

uh, that's dir /? srry

 

[R. P.]

dir /O[opts] or you can set DIRCMD=/O[opts] environment variable, use
dir /h to get more help.

That was the first thing I checked but the /O switch does not have an
option to produce listing of files in an unsorted, physical order.

R. P.