I've been using a verb "dir", as a cover for "1!:0@<", which I now find
shadowed by a definition in "stdlib.ijs".  This new version provides much
less convenient output - a simple text matrix rather than the useful boxed
output of the older, simpler use of the foreign conjunction.

I've been thinking that the transition to J7 would be a good motivation to
throw out some of my custom verbs in favor of standard, system-supplied ones
but, in this case, it would be a step backwards and would break many lines
of existing code.

Has anyone else run into issues like this?  Do people agree with me about
the greater utility of the boxed result compared to the text matrix?
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