[Coco] what happened to DIR?

[Gene Heskett]

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
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