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

[dthi...@gmail.com]

> It would be nice to be able to see the output from a DIRECTORY command 
> optionally sorted by one of largest size, smallest size, oldest date, 
> newest date, etc. 

This sounds like a good opportunity for some community-contributed software (like the old DECUS Library).  :-))
IIRC, there have been modified directory-like program submissions in the past.

Write a new program, DIRECTORY2 and a CLD file to do what you'd like the modified DIRECTORY to do, either using:
  1) Existing DIRECTORY source code from VSI, in whatever language it's written in, and enhance it the way you want, OR
  2) Create new program code in C, calling system routines to do the work.

Submit the new code to VSI.

They can either use it as part of their new DIRECTORY baseline, or it can be put into the community source program.

David