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

[Bob Eager]

On Wed, 22 Apr 2009 16:40:12 UTC, AEF <spamsink2001 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> 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:
> >
> >
> >
> > > 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.

You could do it in v6 UNIX too...I just checked!

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Bob Eager