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

Simon Clubley clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP
Wed Jan 26 09:00:18 EST 2022


On 2022-01-26, Jan-Erik Söderholm <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com> wrote:
>
> Might need a new message:
>
> %DIRECT-E-TOLARGETOSORT, directory to large for SORT qualifier
>
> Since the file names can not be read in any other sorting order
> then alphabetical, they need to be read into memory and sorted.

We are no longer living in the world of 256Kbytes of system memory
and using RM02s for our disk drives. :-)

I do this just fine elsewhere without a problem...

Simon.

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