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

[Simon Clubley]

On 2022-01-27, Jan-Erik Söderholm <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com> wrote:
> Den 2022-01-27 kl. 03:51, skrev dthi... at 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,
>
> Is that even possible?
>

No.

And even if the answer was yes, then there are also other issues
like access to the regression testing suite VSI uses and copyright
assignment of your code to VSI if they want to use your code
directly within VMS itself.

Simon.

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