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

[Steven Schweda]

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

   Did he imply it, or did you infer it?

   It's not too "general"; it's too confused.  If you have one sort
criterion (say, modification date+time), then you have one sort
criterion.  And a sort criterion should be a sort criterion, and, as
such, should not change content selection.

   Everything's complicated, but contradiction/nonsense is often
avoidable.  If you expect a program to guess what you'd really like to
see when that's different from what you requested (or ambiguous, or
worse), then you should get used to disappointment.

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

   What to do with versions in some /REVERSE sort scheme might be worth
some thought, but "in most cases" generally means "not always", and
"highest" and "latest" are spelled differently for a reason.