[Coco] NitrOS9

[Stephen H. Fischer]

Take a look at "VDir" which I wrote, the only Shell Sub that was written AFAIK.

ftp://www.rtsi.com/OS9/OS9_6X09/APPS/VDir.lzh 

ShellPlus 2.1a has almost all the power I had and used in my day job back then.

CDC 6600 Super Computer ~ 1970 - 1980.

SHF

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dave Philipsen" <dave at davebiz.com>
To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Saturday, December 10, 2016 10:14 PM
Subject: Re: [Coco] NitrOS9


> I'm not using OS9 very much right now but I used to use it a lot. I do use Linux fairly extensively though I don't use the GUI much. From the command line, the meta characters '*' and '?' are very powerful and I'd love to see the same functionality in the OS9 shell.
> 
> Just think of how much work it is to replicate "copy * /dd/new_directory" under OS9.
> 
> Dave
> 
>> On Dec 10, 2016, at 11:51 PM, Stephen H. Fischer <SFischer1 at Mindspring.com> wrote:
>> 
>> It was in ShellPlus.
>> 
>> ftp://www.rtsi.com/OS9/OS9_6X09/APPS/ShellPlus_2_1.lzh
>> 
>> Later mods may have broken ShellPlus in ways that could not be fixed.
>> 
>> SHF
>> 
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Dave Philipsen" <dave at davebiz.com>
>> To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
>> Sent: Saturday, December 10, 2016 9:35 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Coco] NitrOS9
>> 
>> 
>>> 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.
>>>> 
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