Command Compatibility

[Jason Clinton]

Jonathan Hutchins wrote:

>Most of the Linux versions I've messed with, as well as some VMS and Unix
>systems, understand that "dir" means "ls".  I suspect that this is either
>very basic - IE written into the shell - or it's simply an add-on "DOSUtils"
>package.  Anybody know for sure?
>
>The question comes up because a recent version of OS-X does NOT understand
>"dir".
>
>
clintonj at athena clintonj $ which dir
/bin/dir
clintonj at athena clintonj $ qpkg -f /bin/dir
sys-apps/coreutils *