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

[Bill Nobel]

Well I am still not sure, but the mscopy I have works with RBF and does real OS-9 drives and every directory I copy.  Could I have a unique mscopy?

Bill Nobel

On Jul 11, 2014, at 9:54 PM, L. Curtis Boyle <curtisboyle at sasktel.net> wrote:

> Wasn't mscopy from the MSF (msdos file manager) package, along with a lot of other ms utilities that worked with both RBF and MSF based derives? I can't remember if that was by the same author of SDisk3 (Johnson?), or if he just sold it. 
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>> On Jul 11, 2014, at 9:47 PM, Bill Nobel <b_nobel at hotmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Just to add a note, mscopy from I think it was from Chris Burke has a nice copy with wildcards and much more
>> 
>> Bill Nobel
>> 
>>> On Jul 11, 2014, at 7:41 PM, Kandur <k at qdv.pw> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 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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