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

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On Wednesday, February 9, 2022 at 2:02:34 AM UTC-5, Steven Schweda wrote:
> > How do y'all handle multiple versions of files when sorting by date or 
> > size and such?
[...] 
> Define "current version". And _not_ show all the files requested by 
> the user? 
> 
> If the user wants only the highest version (which might not be the 
> latest), then there's a syntax for that: ";0" (or ";"). So far as I 
> know, there's no way to specify "latest".

Yes, there is. When you do a commands like
DIR A.A;
A = F$SEARCH("A.A")
you get the current version. Or you could call it the latest version, or the highest version, or the version with the largest version number. 
When you give a file-spec with just ; in the version-number field, or without anything in that field, you would get the version with the highest version number. Seems to me that that would make it the current version.