On Wed, 6 Dec 2017 13:45:45 +0100, "R.Wieser"
wrote:

Ammammata

it works on my (old) xp machine, can't understand/reproduce your issue

The OP is (most likely) running plain DOS, not a console window runing under
Windows

Although the OP thinks it works the same inder XP, I'm not aware that it can
be booted into DOS (as you can with W98)

Regards,
Rudy Wieser


i was running it in a DOS WINDOW in Win98. I could also boot directly to
DOS, But it's using the DOS that comes with Win98.

Actually, it's been many years, but I dont think the TREE command came
with Win98. I think it was eliminated in 98. But I sort of recall
copying that and a few other missing Dos commands from a prior version
of Dos to the Dos folder in Win98. The commands work fine, it's just
that Win98 did not come with them. It's been 18 or 19 years since I
installed Win98, so it's hard to remember all the details, but it seems
to me that TREE was not included.