[Coco] NitrOS9

[L. Curtis Boyle]

Yep. The command CP supported this style of wildcarding (using the shellplus wildcards), and allow copying, creating just links, etc. But, as I mentioned previously; you were severely limited to how many filenames it could fit to pass onto commands like CP. Other copy commands, like MSCOPY from Sardis, using internal wildcards, had no restrictions, and could copy an entire directory of 100’s /1000’s of files with one command. 

L. Curtis Boyle
curtisboyle at sasktel.net



> On Dec 11, 2016, at 12:14 AM, Dave Philipsen <dave at davebiz.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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