[Coco] NitrOS-9, ranting about....

[Kandur]

Either way you win some, you lose some.
The chd method would be great, if it worked with wildcards,
like Copy /d0/s*   or copy /do/cmds/*

Kandur

Friday, July 11, 2014, 5:38:01 PM, you wrote:
> The original copy does not require you to enter the filename twice unless
> you are in a different data directory from the destination. For example, if
> you are currently CHD'd to /DD and the file you want to copy is in /D0, all
> you need type is copy /d0/filename (assuming the destination is /DD), and
> the file will be copied to /DD. Changing directories may not be your idea
> of simple, but you can always use the standard format of copy
> origin/filespec destination/filespec if you don't feel like changing
> directories.



> On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 10:30 AM, Kandur <k at qdv.pw> wrote:

>> In the 80-s, loved to work with os-9, especially with L2.
>> Over the years, we got spoiled by Linux and Windows,
>> and missing the flexibility these offer vs os-9.
>> What seem to be missing is,
>> the ability to delete a directory recursively, even if it is not empty,
>> to copy a file without repeating it's name,
>> to get a decent, human friendly directory listing, decimal sizes, etc.
>> I'm sure the NitrOS-9 community produced utilities to remedy
>> the above shortcomings, Could you help me to find them please?
>> While at it, if running nos-9 in Vcc how can we access the files
>> from a vhd disk mounted on /H0.

>> Kandur

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