[Coco] what happened to DIR?

[Bob Devries]

Hi Gene,

I did some sleuthing, and found that the DIR command I use was in fact 
from dir_9.lzh on RTSI. It's in the /OS9/OS9_6X09/APPS/ directory

Regards, Bob Devries
Dalby, QLD, Australia

On 21/05/2014 11:57 AM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Tuesday 20 May 2014 20:24:34 Bob Devries did opine
> And Gene did reply:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> For many years, I used a version of the DIR command that was enhanced
>> with quite a few extra options, among them dir sort (with rewrite
>> option).
>>
>> The current version in NitrOS9 only uses the unmodified Tandy version.
> I'd call that an ooops.  We have had directory sorters of several ilks for
> 20 years or more.  There was a dirsort, that had some options, I had a
> hand in dsort (mostly trash cleanup where the original could leave
> garbage, and multivue's own gsort, which had the same problem of not doing
> a very good job of cleaning up.
>
> Dsort, and the dropin replacement for MV's gsort are available on my web
> page below. Both will also run from the command line.
>
>> I'd love to see the enhanced version added. If it's already there, it
>> may be camouflaged under a different name that I haven't recognised.
> If Tormod is reading the mail, there is the next merge project. ;-)
>   
>> Regards, Bob Devries
>> Dalby, QLD, Australia
>
> Cheers, Gene Heskett