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

[Simon Clubley]

On 2022-01-26, John Wallace <johnwallace4 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
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> You mean like DIR on RT11 (single user PDP11 OS) has had since the 1990s or thereabouts?
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> .DIR /SORT:[sort_option] 
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> Sort_options include DATE and SIZE.
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> You can also include a /REVERSE qualifier to reverse the default sort order.
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> See e.g. http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/dec/pdp11/rt11/v5.6_Aug91/AA-PDU0A-TC_RT-11_Commands_Manual_Aug91.pdf
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> Somebody must have thought it was worth doing.

Interesting. I wasn't aware of that.

Thanks John. (And yes, I agree someone must have thought it was worth
adding that functionality).

Simon.

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