RE: VMS equivalent of ls -lrt

DIR/SORT=DATE (Try with HELP DIR first. My VMS is a bit rusty, probably beacuse
I haven't used it since the version 5.5-2 which was a long, long time ago when the dinosaurs were walking the earth and people knew what "EDT" and was

and what is a "GOLD" key".
run $SYS$update:autogen nofeedback

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Sent: Friday, November 16, 2001 10:25 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

What's your question??

If you want to send it to me directly, feel free.

(Sorry, John, I still haven't found an lrt equiv. But I'm still looking)

Barb
bakerb_at_denver-rmn.com

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> From: Santosh Varma[SMTP:vsantosh_at_psi.soft.net]
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> I wanted to know of any site where VMS documentation is there. can anybody
> help me out ?? detailed knowledge of VMS !!
>
> thanks in advance ,
> santosh
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> John
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> A user has asked me about identifying most recently created trace
> files on a VMS system. I have shown him where they are and how to do a
> DIR/SIN=TODAY command to get todays files.
>
> However he was complaining that there was no equivalent on VMS to ls
> -lrt to list all files oldest first.
>
> I have looked at PIPE DIR *.TRC |SORT commands but you need a key
> and it is not to obvious how to do it easily.
>
> Does anybody know an easy way of doing it.
>
> I have never needed to do it because I have always find the date
> parameter to DIR to be sufficient but it would be nice to help a user out
> for a change !!!
>
> John
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