[Coco] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Nitros9 Script question

[mmarlett at isd.net]

All,

I spoke with Boisy on this last night and he indicated that the stock dir
with NitrOS-9 doesn't handle the wildcard. I know mine does, so it is a
replacement.......

Mark

>To Mark, Fred, Charlie, et al:
>
>This "DIR" behavior has nothing to do with Shell, or any OS release
version.
>DIR expects its argument to be a directory, not a file.  DIR for OS9 and
>NitrOS9 has always worked this way; it never worked with ordinary files.
>(this is NOT an MSDOS version)  If you had a DIR that worked with files
>AND directories, it was a replacement utility, not the 'stock' version.
>
>Rodney
>
>Mark Marlette wrote:
>>This sounds more like a shell issue. I'm not in front of a CoCo now or
will
>>be for 24+ hours, :(. So Boisy or Robert correct me here if I mislead. I
>>***think*** shell+ is the standard default shell in the NitrOS
>>distributions. Shell+ handles scripts differently than the stock Tandy
>>shell did. In the CMDS dir there are different shells. Find the one that
>>works for you. Could be an OS issue but I doubt it.
>>
>>As far as wildcards go....I do this often, so often I don't recall what
I'm
>>using or how I have it setup at home. Run scripts or use the path command
>>of shell+ to point to my special commands. The command is dir, just don't
>>know the flavor right now. Will try when I get with range of a tre....Did
>>that one for you Kevin..... :)
>>
>>Mark
>>
>> 
>>
>>>> > ><mmarlett at isd.net> wrote in message
>>>> > >news:41619e62.3eec.0 at isd.net...
>>>> > >>
>>>> > >>
>>>> > >> Charlie,
>>>> > >>
>>>> > >> :dir -e *.adv doesn't work???????
>>>> > >>
>>>> > >> Add the : in front of the dir command.
>>>> > >>
>>>> > >> ????
>>>> > >>
>>>> > >> Mark
>>>> > >>
>>>
>>>> > >Mark,
>>>> > >
>>>> > >Nitros9 3.02.01, using the Kyumgai directory I typed :dir -e 
>>>> *.vef and I
>>>> > get
>>>> > >error 214. 214 is no permission.
>>>> > >
>>>> > >Charlie
>>>
>>>While following your thread, I got curious, so I tried it out myself. I
>>>also got an 'Error 214 - No Permission' when I tried the command ':dir
-e
>>>*.doc' in a directory with a lot of .doc files.
>>>
>>>I am running NitrOS-9 ver. 03.02.04.
>>>
>>>I've noticed a similar problem with a few other commands. I keep getting
>>>'No Permission' errors with certain commands that I never got before
>>>upgrading to 03.02.04. Most notably 'bak' and 'dircopy', which are two
>>>Cocopro! utilities I have which copy directories.
>>>
>>>Fred Provoncha
>
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