[Info-vax] Still no DIR/SORT_BY_TIME

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2015-08-16 20:05, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2015-08-15, George Cornelius <cornelius at eisner.decus.org> wrote:
>>
>> I believe that even if you used DCL as your CLI (M+ only)
>> it under the covers generated the various PIP commands.
>>
>
> RSTS/E DCL did this as well and you could still use PIP directly
> if you needed to (/mode:4096 for example).

Well, unless I remember wrong, it was/is not done the same way. Under 
RSTS/E, DCL would probably invoke PIP, with the command line massaged to 
accomplish the task.
Under RSX, the command line is rewritten by the DCL CLI, and then passed 
to MCR to actually parse and execute it. So DCL do not invoke any 
programs, except MCR. And you can turn on debugging in DCL, which cause 
the command line DCL generates to be printed, but not executed. That way 
you can see what MCR line it translates to.

Example:
$ set debug

$ dir /since:1-jan-2001
PIP /DD:1-JAN-2001:*&/LI
$

> BTW, does RSX also have a read regardless mode ?

Not sure what you mean by that. Maybe you can explain in more detail 
what you're asking, and then I can answer. :-)

	Johnny

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