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

[Simon Clubley]

On 2022-02-09, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) <helbig at asclothestro.multivax.de> wrote:
> In article <0fc2fca8-4ab4-46aa-bf51-a3ee070b5bd5n at googlegroups.com>,
> Steven Schweda <sms.antinode at gmail.com> writes: 
>
>>    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.
>
> Ideally, one could have several sort criteria, and items would be sorted 
> in order of the first one, then the second one, and so on, like 
> SORT/KEY:
>

Sorting is based on metadata about the file (size, creation date/time, etc).

It makes no real sense to sort on anything other than just one key
as you would need multiple entries to have _exactly_ the same metadata
(exact same file size, exact same creation date/time) in order to make a
difference.

Simon.

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