[Coco] NitrOS9

[Stephen H. Fischer]

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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