[Info-vax] DIRECTORY: bug or feature

[Phillip Helbig---undress to reply]

In article <jq75us$kjb$1 at speranza.aioe.org>, "Fred Zwarts \(KVI\)"
<F.Zwarts at KVI.nl> writes: 

> The directory command does not do any sorting. It just shows the files 
> in
> the order in which the parse function gives them. If a file happens to 
> be in
> another directory than the previous one, then a new directory header is
> printed. It seems very logical to me.

Yes, that explains it:

$ dir b,c

Directory DISK$SCRATCH:[HELBIG.TEST.TEST]

B.B;1               C.C;1

Total of 2 files.
$ dir c,b

Directory DISK$SCRATCH:[HELBIG.TEST.TEST]

C.C;1               B.B;1

Total of 2 files.