[Coco] Sugestions for new NitrOS-9 versions

[Juan Castro]

A "move" syscall and utility?

On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 12:50 PM, Luis Antoniosi (CoCoDemus)
<retrocanada76 at gmail.com> wrote:
> What would you change on NitrOS-9 for the next versions ?
>
> I have one suggestion: make the executable path (CHX) multiple and
> relative like:
>
> chx ./;./cmds;/dd/cmds/
>
> For example using the path this would make the os-9 search for modules
> first on you current dir, then into a CMDS folder on the same level as
> you are and then finally in the default /dd/cmds
>
> Why ? because every time you use a second disk you have to type:
>
> chx /d1/cmds
>
> and this is very annoying. Then you need to check the DIR if you don't
> have it in your /d1/cmds folder you will need to make
>
> chx /dd/cmds
>
> or call:
>
> /dd/cmds/dir
>
> What do you think about this suggestion ? Especially using large CF or
> HDDs with apps installed in multiple folders changing CHX everytime is
> a pain. Copying everything to your /dd/cmds is a mess and could cause
> file conflicts.
>
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