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

[Bill Nobel]

Actually Curtis I just remembered that it could be Simon Johnson? (could be wrong)  was the name and he created the whole MSF system.  I still to this day use a lot of the ms* utiltys.

Bill Nobel

On Jul 11, 2014, at 10:00 PM, Bill Nobel <b_nobel at hotmail.com> wrote:

> 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
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> 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. 
>> 
>> Sent from my iPhone
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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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