[Coco] NitrOS9

[Barry Nelson]

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.