knudsen@ihwpt.UUCP (mike knudsen) (10/03/85)
Since somebody asked, and Microware is active on the net: Features & Programs I would like best on OS-9: (1) A REAL Shell, including at least: Wild-card file names with * and ? $1, $2, etc. arguments to shell scripts Some conditional tests (not much) (2) Some means of avoiding that one, huge, flat /cmds directory. A limited PATH scheme, with just ONE alternate place to look if an executable file isn't in current /cmds. At least, let me keep my own C compiles and BASIC09 "packs" separate from system utilities so I can see what I have. Of course, having a decent "dir" command (with filename arguments) would eliminate a lot of the needs above. (3) A good screen editor, exactly like EMACS. DynaStar is close, but not close enuf. I run OS-9 Level 1 on a CoCo, so am well aware of the features -vs- RAM & disk-space tradeoffs. Might want to have the Shell enhancements in a separate module that could be loaded and unlinked as needed. Thanks for "listening" -- mike k
jimomura@lsuc.UUCP (Jim Omura) (10/04/85)
A couple of small changes I'd like to see are: 1. The syntax of 'save' reversed, so it'd be consistent with the rest of OS-9. I can't see a good reason to do it 'backwards'. 2. 'dir e' doesn't give the date. Why it bothers with the time without the date is surprising. When I pipe it to the printer for a record, I end up having to date them by hand. 3. On the Color Computer version 1.00.00 you could call in with any combination of terminal settings (8 bit no parity, 7 bit even, 7 bit odd) and everything was fine for login and entering commands. Now with 1.01.00, I have to come in with 8 bit. This is frustrating. One computer I use doesn't have 8 bit no parity. What happened to the filtered input? 4. /t2 on the Color Computer should have automatic switching for 300/1200 and maybe 2400 baud rates (at least optional). I guess that's Tandy's problem? Cheers! -- Jim O. -- James Omura, Barrister & Solicitor, Toronto ihnp4!utzoo!lsuc!jimomura Byte Information eXchange: jimomura Compuserve: 72205,541 MTS at WU: GKL6
jimomura@lsuc.UUCP (Jim Omura) (10/04/85)
One thing which may be big or small (I'm not sure): Full dates (that is 1985/10/03). I *need* full dates. I plan 21 years in advance for some things! And if the Shack's people tie in here, they should know that being limited to 35 tracks of 1 side of a disk is rediculous (most people I know are running 40 tracks double sided). Cheers! -- Jim O. -- James Omura, Barrister & Solicitor, Toronto ihnp4!utzoo!lsuc!jimomura Byte Information eXchange: jimomura Compuserve: 72205,541 MTS at WU: GKL6
fnf@unisoft.UUCP (10/07/85)
In article <489@ihwpt.UUCP> knudsen@ihwpt.UUCP (mike knudsen) writes: >Since somebody asked, and Microware is active on the net: >Features & Programs I would like best on OS-9: > >(1) A REAL Shell, including at least: > Wild-card file names with * and ? > $1, $2, etc. arguments to shell scripts > Some conditional tests (not much) > When I worked for Four Phase Systems about a year ago, I remember that one of my coworker's wanted the same thing under FPS's ISOS running on their 6809 machines (ISOS is based on OS-9 as I recall, much like Xenix is based on Unix). So he spent a couple of weeks of spare time and ported the standard system V bourne shell to ISOS. I understand that it wasn't real easy, but it was possible, and functioned reasonably well. I mention this just to indicate that it might be possible to do the same thing with the standard OS-9 product. -Fred =========================================================================== Fred Fish UniSoft Systems Inc, 739 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA 94710 USA {ucbvax,dual}!unisoft!fnf (415) 644 1230 TWX 11 910 366-2145 ===========================================================================