[Info-vax] Still no DIR/SORT_BY_TIME

[alanfeldman48 at gmail.com]

On Wednesday, August 12, 2015 at 10:39:07 AM UTC-4, David Froble wrote:
> alanfeldman [...] wrote:
> > Just checked http://h30266.www3.hp.com/odl/axpos/opsys/vmsos84/9996/9996pro_63.html#blue_73
> > 
> > Still can't sort directory listings by time. 
> > 
> > AEF
> 
> It's called "programming".  Sometimes you have to do it yourself ..
> 
> :-)
> 
> A simple one without a bunch of switches should be able to be knocked out rather 
> quickly.
> 
> Or, you could take a directory output and sort it ...

Yes, I know. I could write my own or get a FW version. I'm just surprised that after ~38 years someone at DEC/... would have gotten around to it. 

We have several Alphas where I work now. My company got bought by another that has some Alphas and guess what? They want to move the stuff running on it to Solaris! And then upgrade that to Linux. And then write a nice front end for the database. 

This is the third time I'm involved with moving stuff off of VMS. 

Should I freely load freeware onto production boxes? (Didn't intend the pun, but I'm leaving it in!)

Thanks.