[Info-vax] Still no DIR/SORT_BY_TIME

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2015-08-12 22:29:26 +0000, alanfeldman48 at gmail.com said:

> ... I'm just surprised that after ~38 years someone at DEC/... would 
> have gotten around to it.

It's certainly reasonable — maybe as part of that newer file system.

Or you can put the timestamp in the filename.

But then I'm increasingly working a whole lot less with writing or 
storing zillions of files — and trying to create or store even fewer — 
and a whole lot more with data stored in databases.

> 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!

illumos provides a reasonably-compatible alternative there, if there's 
ever a decision to exit the Oracle orbit.

> And then upgrade that to Linux.

So... Somebody has a short attention span?

> And then write a nice front end for the database.

It seems maybe this is more about the Oracle database than the 
operating system platform?

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

That's fairly common — while the numbers of those have definitely 
slowed down, the migrations may well start up again, depending on...

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

You probably already have freeware on production boxes.  There's some 
in the base OpenVMS distro.  Some in layered products.


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