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

[Kip Koon]

Hi All!
Whomever has all the MS* utilities, I'd like a copy.  PM me of course.
Thanks a bunch.  Take care my friends.

Kip Koon
computerdoc at sc.rr.com
http://www.cocopedia.com/wiki/index.php/Kip_Koon
http://computerpcdoc.com/



-----Original Message-----
From: Coco [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] On Behalf Of Bill Nobel
Sent: Saturday, July 12, 2014 12:15 AM
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [Coco] NitrOS-9, ranting about....

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
> 
> 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
>> 
>>> 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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