[Coco] Fwd: Re: NitrOS9

[Dave Philipsen]

And if it wasn't in the shell but indeed just a part of the 'dir' 
command, it should have been in the shell!

Dave


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Subject: 	Re: [Coco] NitrOS9
Date: 	Sat, 10 Dec 2016 23:35:00 -0600
From: 	Dave Philipsen <dave at davebiz.com>
To: 	CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>



I'm just guessing here but probably the wildcard expansion was not a
part of the 'dir' command.  It was probably built into shell and
therefore would affect anything you type on the command line.

Dave


On 12/10/2016 11:21 PM, Barry Nelson wrote:
> On Saturday 10 December 2016 17:01:42 L. Curtis Boyle wrote:
>
>> Robert is correct in that some things have changed - the ‘-‘ sign on a
>> lot of commands is one. TMODE and XMODE are radically different than
>> the original OS-9 (and if you pull down some older OS-9 programs that
>> fork out to these commands, they will not work properly without
>> patching). So, you are correct in that we need some proper
>> documentation (even just documenting differences/additions would be
>> helpful). Another issue is that some commands in later NitrOS-9 (DIR
>> is a prime example for me) have actually gone backwards from original
>> NitrOS-9. As of version 2.01 of NitrOS-9, DIR had wildcard support
>> (both * and ?), and extra options for recursive directory searches,
>> etc. Then, for some unknown (to me) reason, that new “standard
>> version” disappeared, and it went back to stock OS-9 in functionality,
>> but with the ‘-‘ now required. And there are other examples like this
>> as well.
> I definitely miss the wildcard expansion. Why was it removed? Especially from a command like dir where no changes are made to the filesystem by the command.
>