[Coco] what happened to DIR?

[Gene Heskett]

On Tuesday 20 May 2014 22:20:04 Bob Devries did opine
And Gene did reply:
> 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

Humm, can't say as it rings any bells here Bob.  Does it have a readme or 
help file of some kind?

I would be curious to see if it does any cleanup in the process of sorting 
& rewriting.

> 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


Cheers, Gene Heskett
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