Hehe it is common knowledge that DIR is a DOS command, along with DIR/P, DIR /W, DIR /P /W etc. etc.
Ahem.
XCopy is also available for DOS, through the command. :-)
Going back on topic, that is indeed a relatively small matter but impressive nontheless. Linux is indeed a very clever operating system, it is just a case of whether people can be bothered to master it to its full potential, and unfortunatel, Linux being Linux, the average joe home user does not find Linux quite user-friendly enough to be confident to do this just yet. But in the next few years...