[Info-vax] Request description of UFS for VMS person

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On Apr 22, 9:34 am, koeh... at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob
Koehler) wrote:
> In article <0036b4f6$0$14681$c3e8... at news.astraweb.com>, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spam... at vaxination.ca> writes:
>
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> > When you consider that DUMP provides records in a different order than
> > the "ls" command, it is safe to assume that VMS fully synthetizes the
> > "usr.dir" file, complete with sorted entries so it doesn't actually list
> > its contents.
>
> > Can anyone tell whether the output of the DUMP/RECORD shows "VMS"
> > directory contents or would those be of a unix directory file that were
> > just sorted ?
>
>    The problem of whether directory contents are stored sorted and
>    whether they are displayed sorted is very old and has been many
>    times solved.
>
>    There is never a requirement to display data in the order stored.
>    Those of us who took RSX systems from FCS to RMS recall the day we
>    got a built-in solution on our PDP-11.

Required or not, you can do it in Solaris Unix. From man ls:

[ bash-3.00$ uname -a
SunOS nygendev01 5.10 Generic_120011-14 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-
V240 ]

    -f           Forces each argument to  be  interpreted  as  a
                  directory and list the name found in each slot.
                  This option turns off -l, -t, -s, and  -r,  and
                  turns  on  -a.  The order is the order in which
                  entries appear in the directory.

[ admin at aef-sol:$ uname -a
SunOS aef-sol 5.11 snv_101b i86pc i386 i86pc Solaris ]

     -f   do not sort, enable -aU, disable -ls --color

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