[Color Computer] [coco] OS-9, alphabetizing directories..

Mark Marlette mark at cloud9tech.com
Thu Nov 24 08:01:47 EST 2005


Gene,

What is/was flaky about it????

Mark

At 11/23/2005 08:40 PM, you wrote:
>On Wednesday 23 November 2005 20:08, George Ramsower wrote:
> >I'm sure there is something to do this..
> >
> > Where can I find a utility to alphabetize a directory of files for
> > OS-9?
> >
> > My CMDS directory is a wreck!
> >
> >
> >George
>
>Hi George;
>
>A slightly flaky gsort was included in the multiview package, which I
>re-wrote to do a bunch of cleanups while it was running, should be
>gsort14 or some such on rtsi.
>
>My version zeros out everything after the high msb byte in the name
>except the fd pointer.  I'd found an instance or two where the original
>could get confused, with the possibility of a file loss you wouldn't
>find until you ran a dcheck on the drive.
>
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