[Info-vax] Suggestion: Adding a /SORT option to DIRECTORY and F$SEARCH ?

[Jan-Erik Söderholm]

Den 2022-02-09 kl. 02:45, skrev alanfe... at gmail.com:
> On Monday, January 31, 2022 at 2:56:26 PM UTC-5, Dave Froble wrote:
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> Not intending to reply here to anyone specifically. Just a question.
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> How do y'all handle multiple versions of files when sorting by date or size and such?
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> Do you let them just fall where they may based on what you're sorting by? Group them together? Only process the current version of each file?
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> Just curious.

As Steven also implied, this question is probably to general
to be abel to respond to in a clear way.

In 99.9% of the cases "sorting by version" and "sorting by date"
is the same thing. It is (at least here) *very* uncommon that
file vesions are not in timestamp order.

For sorting (or rather searching) by date, I use the /sin and /bef
switches to "zoom in" to what I'm looking for.

But yes, in most cases, it is the highest/latest version that is used.