[Coco] NitrOS-9, ranting about....

[Bill Nobel]

Just to add a note, mscopy from I think it was from Chris Burke has a nice copy with wildcards and much more

Bill Nobel

On Jul 11, 2014, at 7:41 PM, Kandur <k at qdv.pw> wrote:

> Either way you win some, you lose some.
> The chd method would be great, if it worked with wildcards,
> like Copy /d0/s*   or copy /do/cmds/*
> 
> Kandur
> 
> Friday, July 11, 2014, 5:38:01 PM, you wrote:
>> The original copy does not require you to enter the filename twice unless
>> you are in a different data directory from the destination. For example, if
>> you are currently CHD'd to /DD and the file you want to copy is in /D0, all
>> you need type is copy /d0/filename (assuming the destination is /DD), and
>> the file will be copied to /DD. Changing directories may not be your idea
>> of simple, but you can always use the standard format of copy
>> origin/filespec destination/filespec if you don't feel like changing
>> directories.
> 
> 
> 
>> On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 10:30 AM, Kandur <k at qdv.pw> wrote:
> 
>>> In the 80-s, loved to work with os-9, especially with L2.
>>> Over the years, we got spoiled by Linux and Windows,
>>> and missing the flexibility these offer vs os-9.
>>> What seem to be missing is,
>>> the ability to delete a directory recursively, even if it is not empty,
>>> to copy a file without repeating it's name,
>>> to get a decent, human friendly directory listing, decimal sizes, etc.
>>> I'm sure the NitrOS-9 community produced utilities to remedy
>>> the above shortcomings, Could you help me to find them please?
>>> While at it, if running nos-9 in Vcc how can we access the files
>>> from a vhd disk mounted on /H0.
> 
>>> Kandur
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